Action Comics , #184

Published: September 1953

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The Covered Wagon of Doom!

Story Featuring Superman

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The Covered Wagon of Doom!

Story Featuring Superman

"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.

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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.

Buzzy Asks: How Safe Is Your Driving?
The Forgotten Man of the Jungle!

Story Featuring Congo Bill

"All the word knows Congo Bill..."

Storyline

Bill exposes a pair of jewel thieves after the thieves prove that elephants do forget.

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Story Notes

script credit from Craig Delich

Story Featuring Shorty

"Fresh Fish"

Story Featuring Jerry the Jitterbug

"Let's go!"

The Holidays of Tomorrow!

Story Featuring Tommy 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.

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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.

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Back cover.

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Inside back cover.

The Line of Stars Presents
The Navy's All-Around Wizards
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Sequence, including art credits, added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.

Supermen of America
Editorial Advisory Board
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Includes a plug for polio research.

"How good are you with your bow and arrow, Pud?"

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Inside front cover.