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CATALOG RECORD

Action Comics #72

DC · Series began 1938 · May 1944

Dates

Cover date
May 1944
On sale
March 14, 1944
Pages
60

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Wayne Boring, Joe Shuster, Henry Boltinoff, Mort Meskin, Jack Farr, George Roussos, Ed Smalle, Bernard Baily, Joe Sulman, Frank Beaveninks: Stan Kaye, George Roussos, Henry Boltinoff, Mort Meskin, Jack Farr, Ed Smalle, Bernard Baily, Joe Sulman, Frank Beavenscript: Jerry Siegel, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Farr, Alan Cabot, Joseph Greeneletters: Henry Boltinoff, Jack Farr

Stories

  • Superman and the Super-Movers! · 12 pages

    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.

  • The Guns of Killer Haines! · 10 pages

    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.

  • The Perfect Double · 4 pages
  • Choose Your Weapons! · 5.67 pages

    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.

  • Out of Nowhere · 2 pages
  • Cargoes of Death! · 7.67 pages

    Americommando is in Tokyo, disguised as a Nazi officer, where he destroys the Japanese convoy trying the run the Allied blockade,

  • Magic Knights! · 8 pages

    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.

Reprinted in

Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1997), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)

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