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Action Comics , #78

Published: November 1944

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The Chef of Bohemia

Story Featuring Superman

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The Chef of Bohemia!

Story Featuring Superman

"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.

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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.

The Bloke Who Croaked the Oak!

"What sight more glorious than an ancient tree..."

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.

Portraits for Plunder!

Story Featuring Vigilante

"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.

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Incident on Hill X
Credits
Story Notes

Second page on inside back cover.

A Fortune in Feathers!

Story Featuring Congo Bill

"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.

Credits
Story Notes

We formerly credited this story to "writer D" who has now been identified by Martin O'Hearn as Whitney Ellsworth.

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.

Credits

"Your bawth is drawn, m'lord!"

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Story Notes

Back cover.

Not to Be Repeated!
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

"Say, General..."

Superman's Secret Message

"An important message to the boys and girls of America!"

Fortified with Energy!

"He's polishing up on his Jap lingo..."

Credits

"Want action?"

Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes

Inside front cover.