Action Comics #67

(December 1943)

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

Daisy Air Rifles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Make Way for Fate! (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Don C. Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel)

Pencils

Pete Riss (signed as Joe Shuster)

Inks

George Roussos (signed as Joe Shuster)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Crash! - - - and a roof falls into a cellar!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Samuel Rayburn; Martha Hoskins; Soapy Waters; Soft-Shoe Sapper; Reggie; Flossie; Sykes

Synopsis

Superman becomes involved in a government project concerning the tearing down of older homes so that an new Officer's Training School could be built on that spot. Unfortunately, the criminal element, which has millions of dollars worth of stolen goods within the walls of one of those homes, is NOT in favor of such a project.

Reprints

• in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 ([July] 2005)
• in Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) #4 ([July] 2017)

Keywords

Army; clergyman; demolition; disguise; lovers' quarrel; mistletoe; wedding

Indexer Notes

In one panel, front pages of both the Daily Planet and Daily Star are shown. Script and pencils credits from Siegel's records: Siegel and Shuster v. National Comics Publications, Inc. et al., case no. 1099 (Westchester Cty. Sup. Ct. 1947).

Get Going! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Be Sure to Get These Top Favorites for the Best in Comics! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

DC Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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

Private Pete / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

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Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Tonsorial Artiste

Genre

humor; military

Characters

Pvt. Pete; the Colonel

Synopsis

Pvt. Pete has to substitute at the barber shop and his first client is the Colonel, who wants a shave.

Keywords

Army; barber shop; shave

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

The Academy of Musical Crime! (Table of Contents: 6)

Vigilante / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Joe Samachson ?

Pencils

Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Jr.)

Inks

Joe Kubert (signed as Joe)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

When that professor of plunder...

Genre

adventure; superhero; western-frontier

Characters

The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; The Fiddler (villain); Droop (villain); Professor Schutzendorf

Synopsis

The Fiddler's gang breaks out of jail and takes over the Parnassus School of Music as a hideout. The Fiddler uses his contacts with wealthy clients to plan burglaries. He makes the mistake of targeting the Bullion Mansion, where Greg Sanders (The Vigilante) is appearing as part of the entertainment.

Keywords

blackjack; burglary; disguise; drums; flashlight; guitar; piano; record player; violin

Indexer Notes

Fiddler appearance added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.

The Very Weird and Eerie Case of Wealthy Tim Buck, II (Two) (Table of Contents: 7)

Super-Sleuth McFooey / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Farr (signed as Farr)

Pencils

Jack Farr (signed as Farr)

Inks

Jack Farr (signed as Farr)

Colors

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Letters

Jack Farr (signed as Farr)

Genre

humor; crime

Characters

Super-Sleuth McFooey; Uriah Hemp; Jiggers; Swami Whammi (villain)

Synopsis

Three multi-millionaires are kidnapped within 72 hours and held for ransom. McFooey finds that the latest victim was a fanatical student of fortune-telling. He disguises himself as a wealthy man and goes to see the Swami, where he gets hit on the head and joins the other three kidnapped men as a prisoner.

Keywords

astrology; disguise; fortune-telling; kidnapping; machine gun; ransom

Indexer Notes

Writer and letterer credits added by Craig Delich.

Deep-Water Detective! (Table of Contents: 8)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Smalle

Inks

Ed Smalle

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Sea gold...buried in the treasure vaults of a sunken hulk...

Genre

adventure; drama; jungle

Characters

Congo Bill; Cap'n Rudd (villain); Gritter (villain)

Synopsis

A gulf hurricane blows Congo Bill's skiff miles off-course and he crosses the path of a steamer that greets him with a rifle shot. When night falls, Bill sneaks aboard the ship and finds it is illegally salvaging sunken treasure. He is caught by the crew and forced to do salvage diving for gold bullion.

Keywords

anchor; Clyde (ship); deep-sea diving; freighters; giant ray; gold; hurricane; knife; radio; salvage

Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder Are in the Movies! (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

Clancy the Cop / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The papers are full of stories about spies...

Genre

humor

Characters

Clancy

Synopsis

Clancy mistakes a Junior G-Men Club for a gang of spies.

Keywords

Junior G-Men; newspapers; spies

Indexer Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

The Secret of Shanghai Rose! (Table of Contents: 11)

Americommando / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script

Joseph Greene

Pencils

Bernard Baily (credited, signed)

Inks

Bernard Baily (credited, signed)

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

A dying man's words leap across thousands of miles of water...

Genre

superhero; war

Characters

Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Bluff Huggins (death); Shang; Admiral Dobura (villain)

Synopsis

A Chinese junk washes up on a Pacific island controlled by American soldiers. Aboard the junk is a dying, delirious man who says Shanghai Rose knows the plans for an attack planned by the Japanese fleet. A coded message is sent to Americommando to find Shanghai Rose. A midnight visit to the Japanese admiral in Shanghai leads to a surprising discovery that Shanghai Rose is a talking parrot.

Keywords

China; Chinese junk; code; Japanese; Pacific island; parrot; radio; rickshaw; Shanghai; World War II

Indexer Notes

Writer id by Jerry Bails. Baily signs in the final panel.

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

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

Baby Ruth; Curtiss Candy Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Home for Christmas (Table of Contents: 14)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Devon Taylor (credited)

Pencils

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Inks

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Colors

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Letters

typeset

Genre

war

Characters

Sgt. Peter Wladislawsky; Stanislaus

Synopsis

A Polish commando squad goes on a raid from England to France on Christmas Eve to take out a radio station and gain revenge against the Nazis for the invasion of Poland.

Keywords

Christmas; commandos; France; knife; Nazis; Poland; radio station; revenge; World War II

Indexer Notes

Blue surprints as background art on each page. Editorial Advisory Board is listed at the top of the second page.
Superman's Secret Message (Code Jupiter No. 4): MARZIWX MR EXLI JVXYVI SJ CSYVWIPJ, CSYV GSYRXVC. TYC EAEV FSRH.

Mardi Gras Marauders! (Table of Contents: 15)

Zatara / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

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Pencils

Joe Sulman

Inks

Joe Sulman

Colors

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

The gay southern city of Orlean...

Genre

adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero

Characters

Zatara [Giovanni "John2 Zatara]; Big Mike Muggridge (villain)

Synopsis

A gang disguises themselves as Roman soldiers to take advantage of the distraction of a Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans and rob a bank. Zatara is able to recover the stolen loot, but is obstructed by the hero-worshiping parade watchers and the robbers get away. The gang decides to target a charity affair the next day, but Zatara happens to be one of the entertainers there.

Keywords

arrows; bank robbery; bows; charity; costumes; Indians; magic; Mardi Gras; New Orleans; parade; wall safe

Get the Bomber and Free Secret Bomb-Sight Free (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

Invention Co. Flight 1612 / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Be a Radio Technician (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

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

Free 150 Power Microscope (Table of Contents: 18) (Expand) /

Metro Publications / advertisement / 1 page (report information)