Action Comics , #72

Published: May 1944

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Story Featuring Superman

Credits
Superman and the Super-Movers!

Story Featuring Superman

"Lifting a bridge or a building and carrying it someplace..."

Storyline

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.

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Story Notes

Art credits added by Bob Hughes.

Story Featuring Private Pete

"Well, what do you know - I'm assigned to K.P.!"

The Guns of Killer Haines!

Story Featuring Vigilante

"Back in the eighties the name of Jabez "Killer" Haines struck terror..."

Storyline

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.

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Story Notes

Writer credit by Bob Hughes.

The Perfect Double

"Hey, - McFooey..."

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Story Notes

Letterer credit added by Craig Delich.

Choose Your Weapons!

Story Featuring Congo Bill

"Modern weapons are powerful..."

Storyline

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.

Story Notes

Writer credit by Bob Hughes.

Out of Nowhere
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Cargoes of Death!

"The harbor of Tokyo is tense with excitement!"

Storyline

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

Story Notes

Writer credit by Jerry Bails.

Magic Knights!

Story Featuring Zatara

"Do you remember reading about Good King Arthur?"

Storyline

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.

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Story Notes

Zatara states his powers are based on science and nothing more than hypnotism and illusion.

Be a Magician! Turn Waste Paper Into War Weapons!

Story Featuring Superman

Storyline

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.

Story Notes

Paper drive feature, art identification by Jerry Bails.

"Tell the Mess Sergeant to look up the recipe for turtle soup."

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Story Notes

Back cover.

Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Superman's Secret Message
Editorial Advisory Board of the Superman DC Comics Magazines

"Look for this trademark!"

"Excellent statue of true friend of Japan!"

"Boy! Am I lucky!"

"A guide tol' me she lost 'em in a Athens boarding house..."

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Inside front cover.