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Issue Details

Issue #74
Published July 1944
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Courtship of Adelbert Dribble"

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

12 page Superman story "Courtship of Adelbert Dribble"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Adelbert Dribble; Bertha Bigge; V: Turtle Baxter.
Synopsis Adelbert Dribble traps Superman in order to pose as him and win the affections of his one and true love......but he gets more than he bargained for!
Genre superhero
Script ? (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils Ira Yarbrough (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-14-07.
Reprinted in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

11 page Vigilante story "Wheels of Jeopardy"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre western
Pencils Mort Meskin

4 page Super Sleuth McFooey filler "Carnage at the Carnival"

Characters Super Sleuth McFooey
Genre humor; crime
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 10-14-07.

6 page Congo Bill story "Poacher's Paradise"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Pencils Edwin Smalle
Inks Edwin Smalle

1 page Sugar Puss filler

Characters Sugar Puss
Genre humor
Script Ray McGill
Pencils Ray McGill
Inks Ray McGill
Letters Ray McGill
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 10-16-08. Page count corrected from 4, per Error Report #2605, from Dean Brovold.

8 page Americommando story "Flight into Freedom"

Characters Americommando [Tex Thomson]; V: Dr. Ito.
Genre war
Script Joseph Greene
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Notes Writer credit per Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 5/05. Last in series.

2 page text story "Trouble Waters"

Genre adventure
Script Barry Blane (signed)
Letters typeset

8 page Zatara story "The Sting of Death"

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