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Issue Details

Issue #70
Published March 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Stan Kaye
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

12 page Superman story "Superman Takes a Holiday"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; V: The Thinker.
Synopsis A new villain, the Thinker, continues to outwit the Man of Tomorrow.....until Superman decides to leave for a vacation and allows Clark Kent to take over for him!
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils Sam Citron (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-9-07.
Reprinted in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

10 page Vigilante story "A Challenge from the Pyramids"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre western
Script Don Cameron? Joe Samachson?
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)
Inks Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)

4 page Vitamin Vic filler "A High Velocity Yarn"

Characters Vitamin Vic
Genre teen humor
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 10-14-08.

6 page Congo Bill story "The Forest Primeval"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

8 page Americommando story "Words are Weapons"

Characters Americommando [Tex Thomson]
Genre war
Script Joseph Greene
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer credit by Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 5/05.

2 page text story "The Fugitive"

Genre crime
Script Eben Azuni (signed)
Letters typeset

8 page Zatara story "Clouds of Crime"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Pencils Joseph Sulman?
Inks Joseph Sulman?