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Issue: Look #5

- Attribution History

Publication Date: February 1940

Issue v4 #5

Detail

Issues: #5 of 2 Issues

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Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Cowles

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Indicia Publisher: Look Inc.

On Sale Date: 02/13/1940

Volume: 4

Pages: ?

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Price: $0.10 USD

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Content Items: 2 (2 stories, 0 covers)

Editor(s): ?

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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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

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Dimensions: 11" x 14"

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Binding: saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

Format Notes:

Reprinted In5

1 Content Item
- How Superman Would End the War [Story on Interior Page(s)]5

reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.

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Content Items (2 total)

New Comic Strip Hero Proves There's Big Money in Fantasy

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

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Inker(s): ? (photographs)

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: non-fiction

First Line: An imaginary man popped out of an imaginary planet less than two years ago. Today he is one of the most popular of all comic strip characters. He is Superman, a character who combines the best talents of a Robin Hood and a...

Synopsis: The text talks about the phenomenon of Superman.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Actually a text article, short introduction article to the rise in Superman's popularity. Includes three photographs: one of kids and vendor around a newsstand, and pictures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster at work. An issue of Action Comics is shown on the newsstand. It appears to be issue #18, which was the final issue before Superman became the regular cover feature. Shuster appears to be working on the first page from the second story in Superman #4, which is the second appearance of Luthor.

How Superman Would End the War

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Colorist(s): ? (see notes)

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

First Line: The Nazis claim the Westwall is invulverable -- well, here's where I found out!

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: Flag

The Amazing World of DC Comics #1 published February 1976
as How Superman Would End the War [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

The 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: Flag

Superman: The Sunday Classics 1939-1943 #[nn] published December 1998
as How Would Superman End World War II [Story on Interior Page(s)]reformatted

In Content Item: Flag

Superman in the Forties #[nn] published December 2005
as How Superman Would End the War [Story on Interior Page(s)]

In Content Item: Flag

Superman: 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

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?