Action Comics
#72
(May 1944)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 60
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1944-03-14
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Detective Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
A Superman DC Publication
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (credited editor); Jack Schiff (actual editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
-
in Superman in Action Comics (Abbeville Press, 1993 series) #1 (1993) - in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 ([May] 2007)
- in Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) #4 ([July] 2017)
-
Superman and the Super-Movers!
Superman / comic story / 12 pages
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (signed)
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (signed)
- Inks
- George Roussos
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Lifting a bridge or a building and carrying it someplace...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Mr. Grogan; Mr. Bixley; Oberleutnant Karl Brumer; Joe Drew; Mr. Sniggle
- Synopsis
- Superman compares himself to construction workers and heavy crane operators as he helps the owners of "Super Movers" against a rival, who is trying to buy the owner out in order to use the business as a front for robbery.
- Reprints
- in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 ([May] 2007)
- in Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (DC, 2013 series) #4 ([July] 2017)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits added by Bob Hughes.
[no title indexed]
Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A guide tol' me she lost 'em in a Athens boarding house...
[no title indexed]
Private Pete / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Well, what do you know - I'm assigned to K.P.!
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Pvt. Pete
The Guns of Killer Haines!
Vigilante / comic story / 10 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Back in the eighties the name of Jabez "Killer" Haines struck terror...
- Genre
- adventure; superhero; western-frontier
- Characters
- The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Jabez Haines (villain); Skip Homan; Anne
- Synopsis
- Jabez Haines keeps his grandfather's name alive as a hero, when in reality he was quite a villain. The Prairie Troubadour is performing at a fund-raising dance when Stuff overhears a deputy tell the sheriff that the bank is being robbed. In his Vigilante guise he catches Haines at the bank, but lets him go. Later, he teaches Haines humility and shows him the errors of his ways.
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Bob Hughes.
[The Perfect Double]
Super-Sleuth McFooey / comic story / 4 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey, - McFooey...
- Genre
- humor; crime
- Characters
- Super-Sleuth McFooey
Indexer Notes
Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.
Be a Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons!
Superman / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy; superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Synopsis
- Superman puts on a special show, for 100 pounds of waste paper as an 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.
- Keywords
- paper salvage; waste paper
Indexer Notes
Paper drive feature, art identification by Jerry Bails.
Choose Your Weapons!
Congo Bill / comic story / 5.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Modern weapons are powerful...
- Genre
- adventure; drama; jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; McGrath; Migli; Knight; Tegar
- Synopsis
- Bill makes a forced landing on a Pacific island, and together with a pair of US Army aviators, manages to drive a Japanese force off the island.
- Keywords
- boomerangs; coconuts; fighter planes; Japanese Imperial Air Force; Japanese Imperial Army; Pacific Theater of Operations; seaplanes; slingshots; soporific drugs; stereotyping of the Japanese; United States Army Air Corps; World War II
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Bob Hughes.
[no title indexed]
Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Boy! Am I lucky!
Cargoes of Death!
Americommando / comic story / 7.67 pages
- Script
- Joseph Greene
- Pencils
- Bernard Baily (signed)
- Inks
- Bernard Baily (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The harbor of Tokyo is tense with excitement!
- Genre
- adventure; war
- Characters
- Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Admiral Numa (villain); Captain Saki (villain)
- Synopsis
- Americommando is in Tokyo, disguised as a Nazi officer, where he destroys the Japanese convoy trying the run the Allied blockade,
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Jerry Bails.
[no title indexed]
public service announcement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Excellent statue of true friend of Japan!
- Genre
- advocacy
- Keywords
- War Bonds
[no title indexed]
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Look for this trademark!
Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comics Magazines
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
Magic Knights!
Zatara / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Do you remember reading about Good King Arthur?
- Genre
- adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]; Merlin [Spider Slandon]; Bob Banton
- Synopsis
- Merlin the Magician has apparently reappeared and established a new Camelot. Rich men are invited to pay for the privilege of sitting at the new Round Table. Zatara exposes the scam as that of Spider Slandon, who poses as Merlin.
Indexer Notes
Zatara states his powers are based on science and nothing more than hypnotism and illusion.
[no title indexed]
Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Frank Beaven (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Beaven (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Tell the Mess Sergeant to look up the recipe for turtle soup.
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
Back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Superman -
1.
[no title indexed]
The Weather Man -
2.
Superman and the Super-Movers!
Superman -
3.
["A guide tol' me she lost 'em in a Athens boarding house..."]
Wheaties -
4.
["Well, what do you know - I'm assigned to K.P.!"]
Private Pete -
5.
The Guns of Killer Haines!
Vigilante -
6.
[no title indexed]
Baby Ruth -
7.
[The Perfect Double]
Super-Sleuth McFooey -
8.
Be a Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons!
Superman -
9.
Choose Your Weapons!
Congo Bill -
10.
["Boy! Am I lucky!"]
Superman -
11.
Out of Nowhere
-
12.
Cargoes of Death!
Americommando -
13.
["Excellent statue of true friend of Japan!"]
-
14.
["Look for this trademark!"]
-
15.
Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comics Magazines
-
16.
Superman's Secret Message
Supermen of America -
17.
Magic Knights!
Zatara -
18.
[no title indexed]
Invention Company -
19.
[no title indexed]
Let's Go to College -
20.
["Tell the Mess Sergeant to look up the recipe for turtle soup."]
Lighter Moments with Fresh Eveready Batteries
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Keith Chandler
- Craig Delich
- Lionel English
- Merlin Haas
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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