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Issue: Look #5
Publication Date: February 1940
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Issues: #5 of 2 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagCowles
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Look, Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/13/1940
Volume: 4
Pages: ?
ISBN:
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Price: $0.10 USD
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Content Items: 2 (2 stories, 0 covers)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: On cover one of the blurbs says, "Superman" Captures Hitler and Stalin.

On sale date from the publication date as submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 2, Periodicals, 1940, New Series, Volume 35, Number 1. Class B periodical. Copyright registration number B 449765.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color:  
Dimensions: 11" x 14"
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Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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New Comic Strip Hero Proves There's Big Money in Fantasy

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Jerry Siegel (photograph); Joe Shuster (photograph)
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Actually a text article, short introduction article to the rise in Superman's popularity. Includes three photographs, one kids and vendor around a newsstand, and pictures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster at work.
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How Superman Would End the War

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Jerry Siegel
Penciller(s): Joe Shuster
Inker(s): Joe Shuster
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman; Adolf Hitler; Josef Stalin
Synopsis: If Superman actually existed, he would snatch Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin and bring them to trial at the League of Nations.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagThe Amazing World of DC Comics #1 published February 1976
as How Superman Would End the War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told #[nn] published March 1987
as What if Superman Ended the War? [Story on Interior Page(s)]recolored
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Sunday Classics #1 published December 1998
as How Would Superman End World War II [Story on Interior Page(s)]reformatted
In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Forties #[nn] published December 2005
as How Superman Would End the War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: A Celebration of 75 Years #[nn] published January 2013
as How Superman Would End the War [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: In red and black.

Per Keith Morgan, one page with the red color was reprinted on page 65 of Les Daniels' DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes and an edited greyscale version appeared on page 8 of Brian Cronin's Was Superman A Spy?

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