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Issue: Action Comics #71
Publication Date: April 1944
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Issues: #71 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: A Superman DC PublicationView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Detective Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/15/1944
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 21 (9 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration. Indexed with the help of Mike Shawaluk.
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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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Valentine Villainy!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
as Action Comics #71 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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Editorial Advisory Board

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First Line: Look for this trade-mark whenever you buy comics!
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Pages: 0.67
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Valentine Villainy!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Betty Roxmore; the Count; Spike; Leek; Paddy
First Line: Dan Cupid draws a bead on Jimmy Olsen...
Synopsis: Superman and Jimmy have much the same problem: what to buy their respective girlfriends for Valentine's Day.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Action Comics Archives #5 published May 2007
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Pages: 12
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The Cave's Secret

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Genres: adventure
Feature(s): Adventures of "R. C." and Quickie; Royal Crown Cola
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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clancy the Cop
First Line: That's the bank's alarm!
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Alias Mr. Sunshine!

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Genres: adventure, superhero, western
Character(s): The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Rainbow Man [Count Fogge] (introduction, villain); Shakes (introduction, villain); Dictionary (introduction, villain); Wilkins; Mrs. Lukers; Mrs. Vandervan
First Line: You never knew The Rainbow Man had a helpful streak...
Synopsis: The Rainbow Man escapes from jail and creates a Count persona for himself. Mingling in society he chooses his next victims, deciding on a we-fix-it agency. One of his men walks the dogs of a Society dame, and steals her valuable jewels. The Vigilante and Stuff pursue the villains and are captured. The Dummy substitutes forgeries for priceless paintings. Finally they run down the gang and return them to behind bars.
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Feature(s): Wheaties
First Line: We're gonna play Nazi torture-chamber...
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The Weird and Eerie Mystery of Ghastly Gables

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Genres: crime, humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Super-Sleuth McFooey
Character(s): Super Sleuth McFooey
First Line: Well, - Shut my big ol' mouth...
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Pages: 4
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Be a Magician! Turn Waste Paper into War Weapons!

Public Service Announcement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: opinion, superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Superman puts on a special show with 100 pounds of waste paper as the admission price to demonstrate to the kids how that much waste paper can be transformed into 115 cardboard boxes which can hold ten 20mm shells.
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Disclose Notes: Paper drive feature, art identification by Jerry Bails.
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Desert Danger!

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Congo Bill; Hitchins; Lightning (cheetah); Askut; Ben Azaar; Ali Habeel
First Line: The violent, suffocating blasts of a scorching desert storm!
Synopsis: Bill helps his Egyptologist friend Hitchins get a ancient Egyptian anklet out of the midst of feuding clans.
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Feature(s): World's Finest Comics
First Line: You prisoners'll just hafta wait...
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Mission for Freedom!

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Genres: adventure, war
Feature(s): Americommando
Character(s): Americommando [Tex Thomson]
First Line: A daring American submarine rests quietly and watchfully at the bottom of Tokyo Bay!
Synopsis: As they are about to be executed, Americommando frees a group of American servicemen from a Tokyo prison camp.
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Genres: opinion
First Line: We have friends in America...
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Best in the House

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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: adventure
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[untitled]

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Genres: humorous
Character(s): Clancy the Cop
First Line: This new uniform just set me back sixty dollars...
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Superman's Secret Message

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Feature(s): Supermen of America
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The Idol on the Island!

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Genres: adventure, fantasy, occult
Character(s): Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Taos; Grog; Big Hank Hope (crook)
First Line: On a sunny island an old stone image stands...
Synopsis: Zatara is on an unknown island where site a statue of the god Meke-Meke. Local pearl divers come to pray for a good harvest of pearls, but among them Grog seems always to find the greatest haul. In fact, in collusion with Big Hank Hope, Grog gets his pearls from a chest in a chamber below the statue. Zatara magically brings the statue to life and frightens the villains into a confession.
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Feature(s): The Crowell-Collier Publishing Co.
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How Joe's Body Brought Him Fame Instead of Shame

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Feature(s): Charles Atlas
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Feature(s): Baby Ruth
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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