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Issue: Action Comics #44
Publication Date: January 1942
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Issues: #44 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics, Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/17/1941
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 23 (7 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; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as Action Comics #44 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as Back Cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]back cover; 1/4 page
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as Back Cover [Illustration on Interior Page(s)]back cover; 1/4 page
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art credits verified by Fred Ray.
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Superman Krypto-Raygun

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Superman Krypto-Raygun
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Caveman Criminal

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Dr. Kemper (death); The Dawn Man (introduction, death); Professor Steffens (villain); Duke Brady (villain); Pugsy (villain, death)
Synopsis: A scientist revives a prehestoric man he had discovered in Alaska and attempts to frame him for murder.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as The Caveman Criminal [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
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Supermen of America

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Character(s): Superman
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Pages: 1
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Energy to Do Big Things

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
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Galloping Gold!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; The Shade (villain); Betty Stuart
First Line: Can you solve the fascinating riddle of...
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Two-page splash.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Morrow Coaster Brake
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Pages: 0.5
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The "Big 7" Is Now the "Big 8"

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Feature(s): Sensation Comics; Wonder Woman
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Pages: 0.33
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Pages: 0.17
Disclose Notes: A few small ads.
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The Diamond Mines

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): 3 Aces
Character(s): Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]; Harry Norris; Jim Hart
First Line: From America to the equatorial heat of Central Africa, the...
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Pages: 6
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Feature(s): Good Books for Christmas
First Line: Every year, just before Christmas, a great many...
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Pages: 0.67
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Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comics!

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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The Circus Saboteurs

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. America and Fat Man
Character(s): Mr. America [Tex Thomson]; Fatman [Bob Daley]
First Line: A city waits in dread--human bodies tumble...
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Curios
First Line: 2,000,000 gallons of super-fuel...
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Pages: 0.67
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Chemcraft
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Pages: 0.33
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Reprisal

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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Pieter van der Meer; Capt. Oberst
First Line: From her refuge across the channel, his Queen had...
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Pages: 2
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Fred Ray
Penciller(s): Fred Ray [as F Ray] (signed)
Inker(s): Fred Ray [as F Ray] (signed)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle
Feature(s): Congo Bill
Character(s): Congo Bill; Sheila Hanlen; James Kent; Major Joyce; Dick McCarthy; Colonel Hettz
First Line: Across the Atlantic from South America come Yankee-built planes...
Synopsis: Bill and his pilot friend, Dick McCarthy, break up a German operation that was capturing and destroying Lend-Lease planes.
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Pages: 6
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America's Favorite!

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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Superman
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Pages: 0.5
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World's Finest Buy!

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Feature(s): World's Finest Comics
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Theft by Rocket

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Genres: occult
Character(s): Zatara
First Line: Among the rock deposits of southern Utah is...
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Pages: 9
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Now on Sale

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Feature(s): National Radio Institute
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Daisy Air Rifles
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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