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Issue: Action Comics #63
Publication Date: August 1943
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Issues: #63 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: 06/12/1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 17 (9 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
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #4 published July 2005
as Action Comics #63 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Art confirmed by Burnley.
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Editorial Advisory Board

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
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Lions on the Hunt

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Good Books Worth Reading
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Supermen of America

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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When Stars Collide!

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Dr. Jaspar Meekins; Professor Praline (villain); Praline's gang (villains); Spike Yaeger (villain); Yaeger's gang (villains)
Synopsis: When Clark Kent observes the collision of two suns in outer space, the resulting electrical showers cause him to lose his memory. Then a wily criminal convinces the Man of Steel he is actually a criminal named Muscles Moony, and puts him to work battling a rival gang...all in the guise of Superman!
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Pages: 12
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First Line: Be sure to get these top favorites for the best in comics!
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Dummy, Dummy & Dummy, Inc.

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff [Jimmy Leung]; The Dummy (villain)
First Line: There's an old saying that trouble comes in threes...
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Pages: 12
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Genres: informational
Feature(s): Woozy World
First Line: Wouldn't this be a woozy world...
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Leatherneck Luck!

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Genres: adventure, aviation
Feature(s): 3 Aces
Character(s): Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]
First Line: The U.S. Marines, at whose name the treacherous, back-stabbing Japs quail...
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Pages: 5
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A Right in der Fuehrer's Face!

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Genres: war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Peter Populis; Adolf Hitler (villain); Heinrich Himmler (villain); Max Schmeling (villain); Hans Kranz (villain)
First Line: Bloated with loot, Hitler gigantically menaces the whole world's welfare!
Synopsis: Americommando challenges Hitler to a boxing match, but instead must fight one of the strongest men in the Reich, Hans Kranz.
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Pvt. Pete
First Line: This being a guard isn't bad...
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The Curse of Cotelleria!

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Genres: jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Nazis (villains)
First Line: Forgotten for these many years is the island...
Synopsis: Bill discovers an Axis plan to invade Malta via a tunnel from another Mediterranean island.
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Pages: 6
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Crazy Scheme

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Writer(s): Will Ledge (credited)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
Character(s): Zeke; Paul
First Line: It felt cool there in the shade of the...
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The Pirate of Pleasure!

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Genres: occult
Character(s): Zatara; Pirate of Pleasure (villain)
First Line: From storm-tossed seas drifts lilting music, as...
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Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story cut and pasted from longer art (probably 9 pages).
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Feature(s): Lightning Ju-Jitsu
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Feature(s): Publishers Art Service
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Captain Tootsie Battles Monster Man!

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll
Character(s): Capt. Tootsie; Monster Man
First Line: This Monster Man is very dangerous, so remember--
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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