Dates
- Cover date
- October 1944
- On sale
- August 12, 1944
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Headline Hoax! · 12 pages
The Prankster disguises himself as a blind news dealer and manufactures Daily Planet headlines to con certain people so that he can make a profit off of them!
- The Punctured Picture! · 5 pages
- The Rainbow Man Sees Red! · 10 pages
The Rainbow Man, while in prison, fakes a debilitating illness. The warden calls in Vigilante to talk to him, but the villain is present in the room disguised as a doctor. Escaping, he then disguises himself as the Mystic Masked Marvel in the Royal Order of Scarlet Tanagars. At the climax of their parade through the streets, Rainbow Man demands the jeweled statue which is to be presented to their illustrious past president. His imperious manner prevails and he drives away with it. Vigilante sets a trap based on the realization that Rainbow Man is now colorblind.
- The Leaping Leopard! · 5.67 pages
Bill exposes a jewel thief who has been disguising himself as a leopard, hoping that escaped circus animals will be blamed for his attacks.
- Terror's Victim · 2 pages
- The Pranks of Pan! · 8 pages
The ancient god Pan, in the human guise of a curio shop owner, lets Jim Baker have a rare old coin on approval. Little realizing that the coin will manifest anything he says - a chauffeur-driven car, a mansion, a ship - a scared Baker turns to Zatara for help. Pan outwits him, but Zatara prevails and by the magical power of the coin, turns Pan into steam and forever banishes him from the earth.
Reprinted in
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1997), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)