Action Comics , #75

Published: August 1944

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Aesop's Modern Fables

Story Featuring Superman

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Aesop's Modern Fables

Story Featuring Superman

"Once upon a time there was a guy named Trigger Mike..."

Storyline

An escaped prisoner named Johnny Aesop, ribbed when he was younger about his last name, decides to commit crimes based on the ancient fables to gain wealth and notoriety.

Story Notes

Credits from Siegel's records: Siegel and Shuster v. National Comics Publications, Inc. et al., case no. 1099 (Westchester Cty. Sup. Ct. 1947).

The Baseball Barrage

"In Sleepyside, where verse alone is spoken..."

Credits
Story Notes

Alvin Schwartz script credit and possible Stan Kaye pencils credit removed by Craig Delich. The Who's Who lists Schwartz as writer only in 1946-48 and Kaye as inker only in 1944. The text is written in rhyming couplets.

Blunderbuss Booty!

Story Featuring Vigilante

"From swiping to swapping - - that's The Dummy's plan..."

Storyline

The Vigilante and Stuff attend the parole board meeting for The Dummy, who claims he is rehabilitated. The Vigilante decides he ought to have another chance, providing he pays back the loot from the last robbery he committed. So, The Dummy opens up a swap shop and appears to be going straight. A thief calling himself The Lash breaks into the Robertson home and steals an old blunderbuss. He then continues to steal blunderbusses, and when Vigilante and Stuff give chase they find themselves near The Dummy's swap shop. They later pursue The Lash and find that he and The Dummy are in cahoots.

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Story Featuring Chief Hot Foot

"Me make-um over wigwam..."

Story Notes

Writer credit added by Craig Delich.

Money Talks
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Frame Up in Fur!

Story Featuring Congo Bill

"Congo Bill, out-rider of the world's hinterlands..."

Storyline

Working for the North Star Fur Company, Bill captures a gang of fur thieves working right under the police's nose.

The Sting of Death!

Story Featuring Zatara

"The hiss of swift and silent death lances down out of the sky..."

Storyline

Visiting his old friend Dick Pack, Zatara finds him in mortal fear of "The Sting of Death". To escape the curse a ransom of $50,000 is demanded. At the subsequent party one of the guests is a maharajah. Zatara unravels his turban to reveal a hive filled with angry robber wasps, their stings dipped in deadly cobra venom.

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The Mysterious Blonde
Story Notes

Back cover.

"Joe, is our credit good for two sodas?"

Credits
Story Notes

Inside back cover, in black and white.

Superman's Secret Message

"Don't worry, darling! There's nobody around!"

Credits

"Why not? They helped give me the energy..."

"For spine-tingling action..."

Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes

Inside front cover.