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Action Comics 45

ACTION COMICS #45

Cover Date: February 1942
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1941-12-15

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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):

Lois Lane

Villain(s):

Count Von Henzel (first appearance; owner of a large African estate; attempts to kill Superman; dies)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Africa

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 Leading Comics #1)

Supporting Character(s):

Betty Stuart
Stuff (first appearance; a young Chinese boy who is trying to redeem his grandfather's image)

Villain(s):

The Head (first appearance; trying to start a Tong War in Chinatown; revealed to be a member of the Kali Cult, a Japanese fifth column group)

Other Character(s):

Lin Choo (first appearance; Stuff's grandfather)

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):

Ferro (first appearance; plans to use Lemurian technology to destroy the world; dies)

Location(s):

Mount Shasta, CA
A small Lemuirian outpost (first appearance; built 15,000 years ago)


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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 (appears in opening and closing of the story)

Villain(s):

Thunderbolt (first appearance; attempts to steal a million dollars to fund saboteurs)

Location(s):

New York City, NY


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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

Villain(s):

Dick and Baldwin (first appearance for both; two treasure hunters; both die)

Other Character(s):

Dr. Standish (first appearance; a researcher)
Ann Standish (first appearance; his daughter)

Location(s):

Syria


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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 (last in World's Finest Comics #4/2)

Villain(s):

Cobra (J. Hamilton Sears; first appearance; attempts to steal his own payroll and blame his secretary)


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