Action Comics #72
| Cover Credits |
| Penciller: Wayne Boring Inker: Stan Kaye |
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Comic Title: Action Comics #72
Publisher: DC
(Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: May 1944
Approx. On Sale Date:
March 17, 1944 Copyright Date March 14, 1944
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1944
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.
Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 56
Editor: Jack Schiff
| Pages | Feature | Note |
| FC | Superman | Unsigned (a) |
| IFC | Ad; Indicia | The Weather Man; Detective Comics Inc. |
| 1 | Superman | "Superman and the Super-Movers" |
| 2 | Superman | |
| 3 | Superman | |
| 4 | Superman | |
| 5 | Superman | |
| 6 | Superman | |
| 7 | Superman | |
| 8 | Superman | |
| 9 | Superman | |
| 10 | Superman | |
| 11 | Superman | |
| 12 | Superman | |
| 13 | Ad | Wheaties |
| 14 | Filler | "Private Pete" by Henry Boltinoff |
| 15 | The Vigilante | "The Guns of Killer Haines" |
| 16 | The Vigilante | |
| 17 | The Vigilante | |
| 18 | The Vigilante | |
| 19 | The Vigilante | |
| 20 | The Vigilante | |
| 21 | The Vigilante | |
| 22 | The Vigilante | |
| 23 | The Vigilante | |
| 24 | The Vigilante | |
| 25 | Ad | Baby Ruth |
| 26 | Super-Sleuth McFooey | (No Title) |
| 27 | Super-Sleuth McFooey | |
| 28 | Super-Sleuth McFooey | |
| 29 | Super-Sleuth McFooey | |
| 30 | Public Service Ad | Superman: "Turn Waste Paper into War Weapons" |
| 31 | Congo Bill | "Choose Your Weapons" |
| 32 | Congo Bill | |
| 33 | Congo Bill | |
| 34 | Congo Bill | |
| 35 | Congo Bill | |
| 36 | Congo Bill; House Ad | Superman #28 |
| 37 | Text Story | "Out of Nowhere" by Alan Cabot |
| 38 | Text Story | |
| 39 | Americommando | "Cargoes of Death" by Bernard Baily |
| 40 | Americommando | |
| 41 | Americommando | |
| 42 | Americommando | |
| 43 | Americommando | |
| 44 | Americommando | |
| 45 | Americommando | |
| 46 | Americommando; Ad | War bonds |
| 47 | House Ad; Text Feature | The Big Eight; Supermen of America |
| 48 | Zatara | "Magic Knights" |
| 49 | Zatara | |
| 50 | Zatara | |
| 51 | Zatara | |
| 52 | Zatara | |
| 53 | Zatara | |
| 54 | Zatara | |
| 55 | Zatara | |
| 56 | Ad | Invention Company |
| IBC | Ad | Electric Game Co., Inc. |
| BC | Ad | Eveready |
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