Action Comics #374

(March 1969)

Alias Super-Thief! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Curt Swan

Inks:

Jack Abel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; Agent Zero-Zero [disguised as Clark Kent]; Jud Blake; "Duke" Dugan; "Gem" Horton; "Foxy" Fagan; "Dealer" Wheeler

Synopsis:

The amnesiac Superman now believes that he is a criminal called Super-Thief and even leads his gang in crimes.

Reprints:

• in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #9/1969 ([august] 1969)

Keywords:

amnesia; FBI; Superman robot

Indexer Notes

story continued from Action Comics #372; continues in the following issue

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Super-Turtle / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Job Number:

3325

First Line of Dialogue or Text:

That plane can't land.

Genre:

humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; superhero

Characters:

Super-Turtle

Synopsis:

When the tire of a plane blows out in mid-air, Super-Turtle flies up and replaces it with a spare. He comments that if the plane had been on the ground he'd have to jack it up.

No Mercy for Supergirl! (Table of Contents: 3)

Supergirl / comic story / 8.67 pages (report information)

Script:

Leo Dorfman

Pencils:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Inks:

Kurt Schaffenberger

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ben Oda ?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Supergirl [also appears as Linda Danvers]; the Avenger

Synopsis:

The Avenger, an alien from the planet Sarkon, sentences Supergirl to death for "killing" a plant and a butterfly during her college studies as Linda Danvers.

Reprints:

• in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #9/1969 ([august] 1969)
• in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #26/1969 (27.Dezember 1969)
• in Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #2 (2018)

Indexer Notes

Green Kryptonite; death sentence

The Zeroids Are Here! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Zeroids; Ideal Toys / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Script:

E. Nelson Bridwell ?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

letters submitted by Martin Pickup; Howard Schwartz; Jeffrey Goldsmith; Peter Kapesser; Robert Fare; Marianne Kreuter; Rock Punt

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1968
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 423,000
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 443,856
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 575 Lexington Avenue, N.Y.,N.Y., 10022, wholly owned by Kinney National Service, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation