Action Comics, #219

Published: August 1956

Cover

Action Comics #219

Reviews

No reviews yet
Posts About This Issue

No discussions yet.

Issue Contents:
Superman's Treasure Hoard!
1 page superhero

"Superman -- a miser? It can't be!"

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Lois Lane
Credits
Story 1 1 page
Story Notes

Sold by Wilson Chemical Co. Inside front cover.

Superman's Treasure Hoard
Story 2 12 pages superhero

"Look...There goes Super-Miser with more treasure for his hoard!"

Storyline

Superman suddenly uses his powers to smelt raw gold into ingots. crush coal into diamonds, and collect giant pearls. All these he takes to a cave, and when Lois follows him there she is astounded to find that he has become a super miser. With the location revealed, Superman realizes that crooks will attempt to steal his treasure, so he fashions a steel door to hang across the entrance to the cave. The whole scheme is designed to trap the crook who stole an experimental atomic cutting torch.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Lois Lane
  • Perry White
  • Art Shaler (crook)
  • Doctor Vandin
Credits
Mike Was a Rolling Menace Until...
Story 3 1 page

Featuring Howie

Story 4 1 page humor; teen

"Sam, I do believe we're going to have another businessman in the family!"

Story 5 0 pages
The Amazing Army of Apes!
Story 6 6 pages adventure; drama; jungle

"Congo Bill has witnessed many amazing sights in the jungle..."

Storyline

A military officer appears to go crazy and starts to think apes are his soldiers.

Characters
  • Congo Bill
  • Janu of the Jungle
  • Chota (chimpanzee)
  • the General
Credits
Story 7 1 page

"Boys and girls! Here's the news you've been waiting for..."

Story 8 1 page humor

"How do you like this room?"

Superman's Secret Message

Featuring Supermen of America

Story 9 0 pages
The Day I Beat the Baseball Jinx
Story 10 2 pages
The Tom Thumb Tommy Tomorrow
Story 11 6 pages adventure; science fiction

"Help! Let me out!"

Storyline

Tommy and Brent find an abandoned desert planet which was evidently once home to an advanced civilization. They bring one of the machines found there back to Earth and Tommy volunteers to subject himself to the unknown rays. As a result he begins to shrink, eventually reaching microscopic size, at which point he encounters the inhabitants of the abandoned world, who had deliberately shrunk themselves when their planet could no longer sustain life. Rather than be restored to full size, they opt to live in the Planeteers' refrigerator.

Characters
  • Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
  • Captain Brent Wood
  • Pluto Pete (crook)
Credits
Peter Porkchops Solves "The Case of the Careless Camper!"
Story 12 1 page advocacy; anthropomorphic-funny animals
Credits
Story 13 1 page
Story 14 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Back cover.