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Issue: Action Comics #47
Publication Date: April 1942
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Issues: #47 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: 02/16/1942
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 22 (11 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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Powerstone

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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Lex Luthor (1st cover appearance)
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as Action Comics #47 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Forties #[nn] published December 2005
as Opponents [Text Article on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Yankee Doodle's Cousins

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Powerstone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Luthor; Perry White; Lois Lane; Brett Calhoun
Synopsis: Luthor gains super strength in order to battle Superman in hand-to-hand combat after Brett Calhoun announces that he is going to give away half of his fortune ($3 million) to any man who can prove he is the richest man in Metropolis.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #252 published June 1972
as Powerstone [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagDC 100-Page Super Spectacular #DC-13 published June 1972
as Powerstone [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #3 published October 2001
as Powerstone [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 13
Disclose Notes: Story continued in part in Superman #17.
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Supermen of America

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
Genres: sports
Feature(s): "Super" Duper; Canada Dry Ginger Ale
First Line: Gosh! I'm so strong sometimes I scare myself!
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Pages: 1
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The Green Cowled Menace

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Vigilante
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Scorpion (villain, introduction)
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Pages: 12
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Busy Bill the Bill Collector
Character(s): Busy Bill
First Line: Hello, Bill. What's cooking?
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Pages: 2
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Go to War

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): 3 Aces
Character(s): Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Gags
First Line: How's the hash today, Ben-Ali?
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Pages: 0.5
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Feature(s): Superman
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Pages: 0.5
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The Skeletons in Armor

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Mr. America and Fatman
Character(s): Mr. America [Tex Thomson]; Fatman [Bob Daley]; The Queen Bee (villain)
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Pages: 8
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Chief Hot Foot
First Line: Hmm - What a headache!
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Here's Top Value!

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Feature(s): World's Finest Comics
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V ···- For Vengeance

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: crime
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Pages: 1.75
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: Several small ads.
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Superman's Radio Show Covers the Continent!

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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Adventures of Superman
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; the Red Khan (villain); Janet Logan; Major Fortney; Bula
First Line: A trading steamer churns slowly through the low waters of an African river.
Synopsis: Bill captures the leader of a band of raiders.
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Pages: 6
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
First Line: Business hasn't been so good lately...
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Pages: 1
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Nargo, the Ruler of Atlantis

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Genres: occult
Character(s): Zatara; Nargo (villain)
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Pages: 9
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Now on Sale

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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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[untitled]

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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