Action Comics #105

(February 1947)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Kodak / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Man Who Hated Christmas! (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils

John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)

Inks

John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)

Colors

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Would Christmas be Christmas without Santa Claus?

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Santa Claus; Jasper Rasper (villain); Mr. Cartwright; Edgar Cringe; Mrs. O'Malley; Tommy

Synopsis

Jasper Rasper hates Christmas and tries to assassinate Santa Claus, but Superman is on hand to prevent it.

Reprints

• in Superman (K. G. Murray, 1947 series) #6 ([November 1947])
• in Superman Annual (Atlas Publishing, 1951 series) #1953-4 (1953)
• in Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) #5 ([March] 2018)

Keywords

Christmas

Want to Be a Champion Dancer? (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

They Wanted Wings! (Table of Contents: 4)

Zatara / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Samachson

Pencils

William White (signed as W F White)

Inks

William White (signed as W F White)

Colors

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Letters

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Men have always wanted to fly...

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Russ Bright; Clipper and other convicts (villains)

Synopsis

Russ Bright has invented a pair od mechanical wings which actually work A group of convicts arranged to have sets stolen and smuggled into prison. These they use to fly over the prison walls. Zatara catches up to them and magically turns their mechanical wings into butterfly wings.

Captain Tootsie Saves the Sailplane (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Roll / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

P Is for Porcupine (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

Operation Hippo! (Table of Contents: 8)

Congo Bill / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script

George Kashdan

Pencils

Ed Smalle

Inks

Ed Smalle

Colors

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Letters

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They fought the Mikado's men on one tropical isle after another...

Genre

adventure; jungle

Characters

Congo Bill; Johnny Williams; Fred Forest

Synopsis

Bill helps a pair of hunters capture a pygmy hippopotamus.

Keywords

airplanes; bulldozers; crocodiles; knockout gas; lions; Pacific Theater of Operations; pygmy hippopotamuses; rhinoceroses; snares; tiger traps; United States Army; World War II

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Craig Delich.

Superman's Secret Message (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Supermen of America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

Two of America's Most Famous Boys! (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Star Spangled Comics; Robin; Adventure Comics; Superboy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Vindictive Vixens! (Table of Contents: 11)

Hayfoot Henry / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Al Schwartz

Pencils

Stan Kaye

Inks

Stan Kaye

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Listen to these two angry neighbors...

Genre

humor; detective-mystery

Characters

Hayfoot Henry

Synopsis

Henry uncovers the cause of the rift between two warring females.

Indexer Notes

The text is written in rhyming couplets.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Little Arthur / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Phil Berube (signed)

Pencils

Phil Berube (signed)

Inks

Phil Berube (signed)

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What's all this business, son?

Genre

humor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

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Letters

typeset

Maiden Cruise (Table of Contents: 14)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Martin Walker (house name)

Letters

typeset

Truth Comes to Gila Gap! (Table of Contents: 15)

Vigilante / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

George Roussos ?

Inks

George Roussos

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Come and see The Vigilante out West...

Genre

adventure; superhero; western-frontier

Characters

The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Scar Jameson (villain); Tom Haley; Jim Todd

Synopsis

Scar Jameson's gang are on a rampage of murder and robbery in and around Gila City, but this ends when The Vigilante steps in to administer his own brand of prairie justice.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

National Radio Institute / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Eveready / advertisement / 1 page (report information)