Action Comics, #87

Published: August 1945

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Action Comics #87

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1 page superhero

"Must be starting to rain!"

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
Credits
Editorial Advisory Board
Story 1 0 pages
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

You Don't Need a Telescope!
Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Danger Highway!
Story 3 12 pages superhero

"Through snow and fog..."

Storyline

Clark Kent writes a story about long distance truck drivers.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Perry White
  • "Gears" Corrigan
  • Walt Shade [Walt Brodie]
  • Mike Cooley
Credits
Story Notes

Credits by Bob Hughes.

Story 4 1 page humor; sports

"T' tell you the truth..."

Credits
A Winter Idyl

Featuring Hayfoot Henry

Story 5 5 pages humor; detective-mystery

"Oh, Winter's the time for a merry jingle..."

Characters
  • Hayfoot Henry
Credits
Story Notes

Schwartz script credit removed by Craig Delich. The Who's Who states that Schwartz wrote this strip from 1946-48. The text is written in rhyming couplets.

Story 6 1 page
Story 7 1 page
The Dummy Art Expert!
Story 8 10 pages adventure; superhero

"If ever a man belied his name..."

Storyline

The Dummy escapes from prison riding a large dog. He buys the firm of S. Gimmick, art-appraisers. Patrons bring their paintings and leave them for authentication. A counterfeit is them made and passed back to the owner as the original. The Vigilante tracks down the forger, who leads him straight to The Dummy.

Characters
  • Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
  • Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
  • The Dummy (villain)
  • Alphonse Gimmick
  • Van Morgan
  • Bilkmore
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit by Bob Hughes.

Story 9 1 page

"Meet a Bit-o-Honey"

Machine Guns
Story 10 2 pages crime
Credits
Story Notes

Second page on inside back cover.

Dead Men's Falls!
Story 11 6 pages adventure; jungle

"From steaming jungles to frozen Arctic wastes..."

Storyline

In South America, Bill exposes treasure hunters posing as gods.

Characters
  • Congo Bill
Credits
Superman's Secret Message

Featuring Supermen of America

Story 12 0 pages
What Makes a Champion?
Story 13 1 page
The Show Goes On!
Story 14 8 pages adventure; fantasy

"They deserve it. They were an unappreciative audience."

Storyline

When asked by Zatara, stage actor Leslie Lawson claims he is too poor to donate to the Home for Aged Actors. Zatara finds that he is being threatened with physical disfigurement by Thumbs Turner, so he reassembles a group of the aged actors, dresses them in period costume for a Shakespeare production, and makes them young again. Lawson he turns into a giant, and Turner is suitably scared. Now that he no longer has to pay blackmail to Turner, Lawson donates $10,000 anonymously to the home.

Characters
  • Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
  • Leslie Lawson
  • Thumbs Turner
Credits
Story Notes

Writer credit by Bob Hughes.

Story 15 1 page superhero

"He comes from Mars possessing strange, magnetic powers!"

Flaming Rescue!
Story 16 1 page adventure
Story Notes

Back cover.