Action Comics #70

(March 1944)

Superman Takes a Holiday (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script:

Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)

Pencils:

Pete Riss [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Inks:

George Roussos ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The Thinker

Synopsis:

A new villain, the Thinker, continues to outwit the Man of Tomorrow...until Superman decides to leave for a vacation and allows Clark Kent to take over for him!

Reprints:

• in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 ([March] 2007)

Indexer Notes

Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-9-07. Previously credited to Sam Citron. Based on Martin O’Hearns blog:
http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/04/millie-model-by-ken-bald-and-pe...,
http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2014/03/pete-riss-mahunter.html, and
http://martinohearn.blogspot.com/2012/03/superman-riss-or-citron.html, and comparing this story
to Citron’s known work on Classics Illustrated 10 [HRN 140] and the DC Mr. District Attorney series, this art credit has been changed to Pete Riss.

Fight Paper Waste -- And Hang One on the Paper-Hanger of Berlin! (Table of Contents)

Superman / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script:

Jack Schiff ?

Pencils:

George Roussos

Inks:

George Roussos

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

advocacy; superhero

Characters:

Superman [Clark Kent]

Synopsis:

Superman encourages kids to help save waste paper to help the war effort.

Keywords:

paper drive; waste paper

A Challenge from the Pyramids (Table of Contents)

Vigilante / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script:

Joe Samachson ?

Pencils:

Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)

Inks:

Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

western-frontier

Characters:

The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff; John Elder; Lee Chin; Dr. Sanderson

[A High Velocity Yarn] (Table of Contents)

Vitamin Vic / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Farr

Pencils:

Jack Farr

Inks:

Jack Farr

Colors:

?

Letters:

Jack Farr

Genre:

humor; teen

Characters:

Vitamin Vic

Indexer Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 10-14-08.

The Forest Primeval! (Table of Contents)

Congo Bill / comic story / 5.75 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

John Daly

Inks:

John Daly

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Congo Bill; Lulan; Moro; Nogli; Rabu

Synopsis:

Bill becomes chief of a primitive tribe when he kills a surviving pre-historic pigs.

Keywords:

Cape buffalo; dynohids; giant monkeys; snakes; stegosaurids; tiger traps

Words Are Weapons (Table of Contents)

Americommando / comic story / 7.6 pages (report information)

Script:

Joseph Greene

Pencils:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Inks:

Bernard Baily (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

war

Characters:

Americommando [Tex Thomson]

Indexer Notes

Writer credit by Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 5/05.

Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc. (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / pages (report information)

Script:

Jack Liebowitz

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

owners: H Donenfeld; P. H. Sampliner

The Fugitive (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script:

Eben Azuni (signed)

Letters:

typeset

Genre:

crime

Clouds of Crime (Table of Contents)

Zatara / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script:

?

Pencils:

Joseph Sulman ?

Inks:

Joseph Sulman ?

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Zatara