Action Comics, #78
Published: November 1944
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Issue Contents:
The Chef of Bohemia
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Sergei the chef
Credits
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Featuring Action Comics; Detective Comics; All Funny Comics
"Want action?"
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Chef of Bohemia!
"He was a comic little fellow with a huge appetite for art..."
Storyline
Ex-pug Biff Condor, losing money from renting a spot in Little Bohemia to a small businessman in a prosperous nightclub area, seeks to oust the man any way possible in order to attract a newer tenant who will pay a higher rent.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Sergei
- Biff Condor
Credits
- Script:
- Pencils:
- Inks:
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). Alvin Schwartz used the name Vernon Woodrum for his comics work.
"He's polishing up on his Jap lingo..."
Credits
- Pencils: Dave Gerard
- Inks: Dave Gerard
The Bloke Who Croaked the Oak!
"What sight more glorious than an ancient tree..."
Characters
- Hayfoot Henry
Credits
- Inks: Stan Kaye
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.
Fortified with Energy!
Portraits for Plunder!
"When ultra-modern paintings are pondered and praised..."
Storyline
The Vigilante and Stuff foil a series of robberies the blueprints for which are incorporated by a criminal artist mastermind into his works of modern art.
Characters
- The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
- Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
- Slammer and his mob (villains)
- Trigger Collins (villain)
- Barton Blaston
Credits
- Script: Don C. Cameron
- Pencils: Mort Meskin
- Inks: Mort Meskin
"An important message to the boys and girls of America!"
Superman's Secret Message
Incident on Hill X
Credits
- Script: Amber O'Neill
Story Notes
Second page on inside back cover.
A Fortune in Feathers!
"When Congo Bill, thorn in thiefdom's side..."
Storyline
While on a timber survey of the Everglades, Bill runs into a group of poachers, illegally collecting rare bird feathers.
Characters
- Congo Bill
- Red
- Midget Mayhew
- Seminoles (Native American tribe)
Credits
- Script: Whitney Ellsworth
- Pencils: Ed Smalle
- Inks: Ed Smalle
Story Notes
We formerly credited this story to "writer D" who has now been identified by Martin O'Hearn as Whitney Ellsworth.
Featuring Buzzy
"Say, General..."
Planes without Pilots!
"Despite all the ingenuity of the human brain..."
Storyline
Zatara uncovers a plot by the general manager and mechanics of Rand Aircraft to fly planes by remote control to a hidden location, where they break them into spare parts and sell them to other aircraft manufacturers.
Characters
- Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
- Mr. Rand
Credits
- Pencils: William White
- Inks: William White
Not to Be Repeated!
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
"Your bawth is drawn, m'lord!"
Credits
- Pencils: Frank Beaven
- Inks: Frank Beaven
Story Notes
Back cover.