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Action Comics, Issue #305

Publisher: DC

Series Title: Action Comics

Issue: #305


Publish Date: October 1963
type: cover
Title: Why Superman Needs a Secret Identity!
Genre: superhero
Cover Characters: Superman
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Action Comics #305 pg1

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Artist: Curt Swan (Penciller)
Media Type: Mixed Media
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 426
Comments: 0
Added to Site: 5/3/2015

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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover Why Superman Needs a Secret Identity! Superman
public service announcement Play It Safe! a day in the life of a forest ranger (billed as a "true story from the records of the Minnesota Warden Service")
comic story Why Superman Needs a Secret Identity! Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lex Luthor (villain); Lana Lang; Superboy; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Chief Parker; Superman Robots; Lois Lane; Ed Lacy (villain); Benny the Blaster (villain) As Clark Kent is faced with a choice between saving his friends and protecting his secret identity, the reader is shown three different scenarios explaining why Superman needs to preserve that secret.
advertisement Try a Tongue Teaser! Letters: typeset
promo (ad from the publisher)
letters page Letters: typeset
Colors: ? (logo illustration)
advertisement Letters: typeset
advertisement 207 Stamps Letters: typeset
promo (ad from the publisher)
advertisement Letters: typeset
comic story The Girl Who Hated Supergirl! Supergirl [Linda Danvers]; Karen Blair; Dick Malverne; Edna Danvers; Bill Blair; Zor-El (flashback); Allura (flashback); Superman (flashback); Dr. Blair (flashback) Karen Blair hates Supergirl because she believes that the rocket that brought Supergirl to Earth caused an accident that killed her father and crippled her brother. Supergirl is finally able to prove that she was not responsible.
advertisement Letters: typeset
comic story Super-Turtle Super-Turtle spots a man in distress out in the desert. He builds a long pipeline to bring water to him.
promo (ad from the publisher)
advertisement Blast Off Letters: typeset
advertisement Task Force Letters: typeset
advertisement 100 Toy Soldiers $1.25 Letters: typeset
advertisement 104 Kings' Knights Letters: typeset
advertisement Letters: typeset
advertisement 204 Revolutionary War Soldiers Letters: typeset

 

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