Action Comics #104
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFrom January 1947 comes this delightfully offbeat chapter in Superman's Golden Age run, pitting the Man of Steel against the mischievous Prankster in a story called "Candytown, U.S.A." The cover by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye captures the whimsical setup perfectly: a grinning, garishly dressed Prankster laughs it up among a forest of oversized candy canes and novelty canes, while a determined Superman stands ready amid the sugary thicket. It's a wonderfully strange image that showcases just how imaginative — and genuinely fun — 1947 DC storytelling could be.
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Years earlier, Heister Hess had buried the proceeds of a robbery under a piece of waste ground. After serving his prison sentence he goes to retrieve it, only to find that an estate of houses has been built over it. He hits upon a plan to sell a penny bank to the young man who lives in one of them. The penny bank explodes, setting fire to the house. Fortunately Zatara is passing and magically extinguishes the flames. A short time later another penny bank explodes, setting fire to another one of the houses. Zatara again saves the day and then traces the cause of the fires back to the robber.
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