Action Comics, #113
Published: October 1947
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Issue Contents:
Just an Ordinary Guy
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
Credits
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Pencils: Al Plastino (uncertain)
- Inks: Al Plastino (uncertain)
- Colors: Jack Adler
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
X Is for Unknown
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Just an Ordinary Guy!
"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
- Script:
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer (uncertain)
Harry Brecheen
Characters
- Harry Brecheen
The Man Who Was Always Late!
"Charles Guppy is always late!"
Characters
- Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
- Charles Guppy
- Percival Link (villain)
- Shifty (villain)
Credits
- Script: Joe Samachson
- Pencils: Edouard Manet
- Inks: Edouard Manet
Tops!
Featuring Animal Antics; Leading Comics
Skulduggery in the Subway!
Storyline
Bill and a blind man pursue thieves through the subway and urban streets.
Characters
- Congo Bill
- unnamed blind protagonist
- Butch (crook)
Credits
- Script: George Kashdan
- Pencils: Ed Smalle
- Inks: Ed Smalle
Featuring Willy
"Oh, boy! What a dandy!"
Characters
- Willy
Credits
- Script: Phil Berube
- Pencils: Phil Berube
- Inks: Phil Berube
Superman's Secret Message
Featuring Supermen of America
The Too-Fragrant Vagrant!
Featuring Hayfoot Henry
"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
- Script: Al Schwartz
- Pencils: Stan Kaye
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Story Notes
The text is written in rhyming couplets.
An Old Friend
Credits
- Script: Mark Rosewater
Story Notes
Sequence added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
Gold Rush -- 1947!
"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
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: George Roussos
- Inks: George Roussos
The Case of the Box Car Bandit
Characters
Featuring Plastic Crafters