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Issue: Action Comics #221
Publication Date: October 1956
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Issues: #221 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/21/1956
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Superman's New Super-Power!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
First Line: It's Superman - - But how is he lifting us up into the air?
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Superman's New Super-Power

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jay Yorrell (crook);
First Line: Superman's using his new power on us...
Synopsis: After destroying an asteroid in space, Superman becomes magnetically-charged. Lois takes the opportunity to prove once again that Clark is Superman, but he has a logical explanation.
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Feature(s): AMF Roadmaster Bicycles
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Binky Shows "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

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Genres: opinion, teen
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Congo Bill -- Witch Doctor

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo ill; Janu the Jungle Boy; Bwanda
First Line: Congo Bill think he stop elephant stampede with his mumbo-jumbo...
Synopsis: Bill tells of how he drank from the magic pool which gives powers to witch doctors. He convinces Bwanda, who as witch doctor has the tribe under his thumb, that his powers are greater. Eventually, Bwanda decides that his powers are waning and heads off to the magic spring. Bill and Janu follow, and Bill dynamites the spring so that no other man will be able to wield such power.
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I Hunted the Sea's Fiercest Fish

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Pages: 1.75
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Here Are the Prizes

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The Sleeping Beauty of Space!

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Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood; Princess Vyra
First Line: This tops anything I've ever found in space!
Synopsis: Tommy and Brent discover a beautiful girl floating in a space capsule. On awakening, she declares herself to be Princess Vyra, from a scientifically-advanced race which existed on earth 15,000 years earlier. She has been searching through time for the perfect man, and has decided Tommy is the perfect candidate.
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Feature(s): Fashion Frocks, Inc.
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Schwinn Phantom bicycles.
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