Action Comics, #184
Published: September 1953
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Issue Contents:
The Covered Wagon of Doom!
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Lois Lane
Credits
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Colors: Jack Adler
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Covered Wagon of Doom!
"A similar storm almost wrecked a covered wagon at this same spot exactly a hundred years ago!"
Storyline
Don Whitmore survives a plane wreck and decides to make a cross country journey in a covered wagon, as his ancestor once did.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Lois Lane
- Don Whitmore
- John Lattison (villain)
Credits
- Script: John Broome (uncertain)
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Story Notes
Bill Woolfolk originally credited as writer, but this story does not appear in his records that he wrote it. John Broome identified as writer by Bob Hughes by textual comparison.
"How good are you with your bow and arrow, Pud?"
Credits
- Pencils: Ray Thompson
- Inks: Ray Thompson
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Includes a plug for polio research.
Buzzy Asks: How Safe Is Your Driving?
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Win Mortimer
- Inks: Win Mortimer
- Letters: Gaspar Saladino
The Forgotten Man of the Jungle!
"All the word knows Congo Bill..."
Storyline
Bill exposes a pair of jewel thieves after the thieves prove that elephants do forget.
Characters
- Congo Bill
- Ajmer
- Ahmed
- Charley (chimpanzee)
- Jumbo (elephant)
Credits
- Pencils: Ed Smalle
- Inks: Ed Smalle
- Script: Jack Miller
Story Notes
script credit from Craig Delich
"Fresh Fish"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
"Let's go!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Supermen of America
The Holidays of Tomorrow!
"That isn't part of the comet day celebration! It's real!"
Storyline
Tommy and Brent visit various planets and watch the celebrations commemorating important events in their history, in the process foiling plans of criminals to steal during the pageants.
Characters
- Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
- Captain Brent Wood
- Jon Varrel (villain)
- Burt Knowlen (villain)
Credits
- Pencils: Jim Mooney
- Inks: Jim Mooney
The Navy's All-Around Wizards
Credits
- Pencils: Luca Maresca
- Inks: Luca Maresca
Reprint Notes
from All Hands, The Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin
Story Notes
Sequence, including art credits, added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
The Line of Stars Presents
The Crime Rhymes!
"More truth than poetry there..."
Storyline
During a meeting of a convict poetry club in a penitentiary, inmates knock out the guards and escape wearing their uniforms. They embark on a crime spree, spouting poetry, humiliating The Vigilante in the process by stealing his new Vig-cycle and gloating about it in rhyme.
Characters
- Greg Sanders
- Stuff
- Vigilante
- Shakes, the Underworld Poet (villain)
- Chip Chapman (villain)
- Blast Owens (villain)
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Featuring Lucky Song Parade Co.
Story Notes
Back cover.