Action Comics, #113

Published: October 1947

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Action Comics #113

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Issue Contents:
Just an Ordinary Guy
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
Credits
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

X Is for Unknown
Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Just an Ordinary Guy!
Story 3 12 pages superhero

"Perhaps you ,too, have at times wanted to be like Superman..."

Storyline

While others dream of having Superman's powers, Superman hypnotizes himself into believing he has no powers so that he can experience life as an ordinary man.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Voinan (villain)
  • Magnus Tubb (hair tonic manufacturer)
  • Alexander Kraymore (bookkeeper)
  • Mamie
  • John Paul Smith (pitchman)
  • Henry
Credits
Harry Brecheen
Story 4 1 page sports
Characters
  • Harry Brecheen
The Man Who Was Always Late!
Story 5 7 pages adventure

"Charles Guppy is always late!"

Characters
  • Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
  • Charles Guppy
  • Percival Link (villain)
  • Shifty (villain)
Story 6 1 page
Tops!

Featuring Animal Antics; Leading Comics

Story 7 1 page anthropomorphic-funny animals
Skulduggery in the Subway!
Story 8 6 pages adventure
Storyline

Bill and a blind man pursue thieves through the subway and urban streets.

Characters
  • Congo Bill
  • unnamed blind protagonist
  • Butch (crook)
Credits
Story 9 1 page

Featuring Willy

Story 10 1 page humor

"Oh, boy! What a dandy!"

Characters
  • Willy
Credits
Superman's Secret Message

Featuring Supermen of America

Story 11 0 pages
The Too-Fragrant Vagrant!

Featuring Hayfoot Henry

Story 12 4 pages humor; detective-mystery

"Hark to a ditty..."

Storyline

Hayfoot Henry encounters a man who once fell into a vat of perfume and who still carries around the odor. Caught trying to steal Ambergris, Henry places him in a jail cell, saying he will eventually lose the smell there.

Characters
  • Hayfoot Henry
Credits
Story Notes

The text is written in rhyming couplets.

An Old Friend
Story 13 2 pages
Credits
Story Notes

Sequence added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.

Gold Rush -- 1947!
Story 14 10 pages adventure; superhero

"Old Tote Todd's greatest wish was to live..."

Storyline

Old prospector Tote Todd wants to relive his youth in a rip-roaring gold-rush town. With Tote only having a month to live, his old partner suggests to a group of friends (including Greg Sanders) a re-enactment of those old days in an old Western town, to give Tote a contented ending. All goes according to plan until a gang of crooks decide there is gold to be stolen and start shooting up the town. Tote, Stuff and The Vigilante pursue them to the gold mine and they are stopped. Tote succumbs to a heart attack never knowing about his terminal illness, and is buried on Boot Hill.

Characters
  • The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
  • Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
  • Dan Jeffers
  • Tote Todd
The Case of the Box Car Bandit
Story 15 1 page adventure
Characters

Featuring Plastic Crafters

Story 16 1 page
Story 17 1 page teen
Characters
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 18 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Back cover.