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Action Comics 44

ACTION COMICS #44

Cover Date: January 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-11-17

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Cover Credits:
Art: Fred Ray


Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
PencilsLeo Nowak
InksEd Dobrotka
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Perry White
Lois Lane (still writing the Lovelorn column)

Villain(s):

Dr. Steffans (first appearance; a scientist who finds a frozen prehistoric man; dies)
Duke Brady (first appearance; a gangster)
Pugsy (first appearance; imitates the Prehistoric Man)

Other Character(s):

Prehistoric Man (first appearance; unfrozen caveman who is blamed for crimes committed by Pugsy; dies)

Location(s):

Metropolis

Story Reprinted in:

Superman: The Action Comics Archives #3 ([October] 2001)
The Superman Chronicles #8 ([June] 2010)
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #2 ([September] 2016)
Superman: The Golden Age #4 ([July] 2018)


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Second Story: [No Title] (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryMort Weisinger
ArtMort Meskin
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (last in flashback in Seven Soldiers: Bulleteer #2; next in Leading Comics #1)

Supporting Character(s):

Betty Stuart
Billy Gunn (next in Leading Comics #1)

Villain(s):

Shade (revealed to be Carter, a radio reporter; kills white Arabian horses to find a capsule containing a map to buried bonds)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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Third Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtChad Grothkopf
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Three Aces
Fog Fortune
Gunner Bill
Whistler Will

Villain(s):

Harry Norris (first appearance; an old acquaintance of Bill's; plots to steal diamonds)

Location(s):

New York City, NY
Capetown, South Africa


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Fourth Story: [No Title] (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryKen Fitch
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Mister America

Supporting Character(s):

Fatman

Villain(s):

Three German saboteurs (first appearance; disguised as circus employees)

Location(s):

Powderville (first appearance)


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Fifth Story: [No Title] (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryFred Ray
ArtFred Ray
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill

Supporting Character(s):

Professor James Kent (leaves for America)
Shiela Hanlen (leaves for America)

Villain(s):

German saboteurs (first appearance; Col. Hettz named)

Location(s):

Freetown, Sierra Leone
Cairo, Egypt


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Sixth Story: [No Title] (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJoseph Sulman
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Zatara the Magician (next in World's Finest Comics #4/2)

Villain(s):

German Army (first appearance; uses advanced airship to try and extract Aluminum; Major Kurtz named)

Location(s):

Utah


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