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Issue: Action Comics #145
Publication Date: June 1950
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Issues: #145 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/12/1950
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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Pages: 1
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First Line: You will always hit the bull's-eye...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Merton Gloop and His Magic Horseshoe!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Merton Gloop; Lois Lane; Professor Carter
First Line: Eeee! I can't look!
Synopsis: Professor Carter invents a horseshoe that repels anything and Merton Gloop walks off with it and consequently thinks he's become invulnerable.
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn. Formerly credited to Bill Woolfolk.
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Phil Rizzuto

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The Show Must Go On!

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 1
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Outlaw World!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Jim Crewe (villain); Blake (crook); Horton (crook)
First Line: We're safe, Tommy Tomorrow!
Synopsis: Tommy investigates an illegal gambling casino on a planet called Outlaw World, beyond the Solar System's three million mile limit.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperboy #21 published October 1950
as Outlaw World! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Not on Otto Binder's list as printed in Alter Ego 147.
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The "Popsicle" Hall of Fame

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Beating the Broken Buckboard!

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Genres: adventure
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Mystery of the Stolen Bell

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Burt Trent
First Line: Who would resort to murder and deceit, just to steal an old, worthless bell?
Synopsis: Bill pursues a treasure hunter who blames natives for the theft of an alarm bell.
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In Content Item: FlagTarzan #230 published April 1974
as Mystery of the Stolen Bell [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 5.67
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Pages: 0.33
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Shredded Ralston, a shredded wheat cereal.
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We Could Have Killed Him!

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Genres: adventure
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Pages: 1
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The Egg and You

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Genres: non-fiction
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Pages: 1.75
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Pages: 0.25
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The Cowboy Magician

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Genres: adventure, superhero
Character(s): Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Alfalfa Perry
First Line: Without guns or tools of any type...
Synopsis: When the singing cowboy racket hits hard times, Greg adds magic tricks to his act.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Hundred Comic Monthly #6 published March 1957
as The Cowboy Magician [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 10
Disclose Notes: Inker revision from Barry to Fujitani per Alberto Becattini in Alter Ego #137 (January 2016).
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The Stagecoach Stick-Up

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Genres: adventure
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A Salute to the Boy Scouts of America

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Feature(s): Superman; Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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