Action Comics, #177
Published: February 1953
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Issue Contents:
The Anti-Superman Weapon
"You've destroyed all my secret weapons, Superman..."
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- The General (villain)
Credits
- Pencils: Al Plastino
- Inks: Al Plastino
- Colors: Jack Adler
Superboy Talks About... "The Holiday Spirit!"
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Anti-Superman Weapon
"But, "General"...Superman's crushing our newest weapons!"
Storyline
The General uses weapons designed by the Nazis but never completed to conduct daring robberies.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Lois Lane
- The General
- Perry White
Credits
- Script: Edmond Hamilton (uncertain)
- Pencils: Al Plastino
- Inks: Al Plastino
"Pardon me. You look like a decent sort of chap..."
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Tops in Comics!
Credits
- Script: Arlindo Fagundes
I Rode with the Outlaw Cameleers
"We are doomed!"
Storyline
Bill captures a group of caravan raiders by using kittens to frighten their camels.
Characters
- Congo Bill
- Miss Calhoun
- Culgara
- the cameleers
Credits
- Pencils: Ed Smalle
- Inks: Ed Smalle
- Script: Jack Miller
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Includes a plug for The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
"Everybody's going to this costume ball..."
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Superman Is on Television!
The Children from Space!
"No, you're firing our ray-cannon..."
Storyline
Tommy and Brent find a ship's lifeboat floating in space, containing four children abandoned by their parents. They claim to be from Zura, but no such planet is known. Thinking it a misremembering by the children, the Planeteers try a number of planets to no avail. The kids prove to be great scientific inventors and Tommy eventually tricks them into making a truth-confession machine. Under its influence their home world is revealed to be in another star system.
Characters
- Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
- Captain Brent Wood
Credits
- Script: Edmond Hamilton (uncertain)
- Pencils: Jim Mooney
- Inks: Jim Mooney
Superman's Secret Message
Featuring Supermen of America
Peril at the South Pole
Credits
- Pencils: Luca Maresca
- Inks: Luca Maresca
Story Notes
Art credits submitted by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
"Pete, run over and pick up three cases of eggs..."
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Featuring Baker's 4 in 1 Instant Cocoa Mix
Five Bandannas for Vigilante
"The bandanna is the cowboy's trademark..."
Storyline
Ambushed whilst he and Stuff are visiting some ancient cliff dwellings, Vigilante loses his bandanna. He is desperate to regain it before the outlaws see his true face.
Characters
- Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
- Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
- Black Diamond Gang
- Big Ben Dyke (villain)
Credits
- Script: Dick Wood (uncertain)
- Pencils: Bob Brown
- Inks: Russ Heath (uncertain)
Story Notes
Keith Chandler: Inks were previously credited to Bob Brown, but there are a number of hands at work here, including (it appears) Russ Heath. Bails' Who's Who has Brown on pencils and 'some inks' on this feature.
Draw Me!
Story Notes
Inside back cover.