Action Comics, #90

Published: November 1945

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Action Comics #90

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero
Storyline

Superman rips open the top portion of a submersible to reveal a gang of criminals.

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

Inside front cover.

B Is for Beaver
Story 2 1 page
Story Notes

Inside front cover.

Rookery for River Rats!
Story 3 12 pages superhero

"Equally at home on land and water..."

Storyline

Superman fights the Amphi-Bandits, who make their getaways in a speedboat by creating an artificial fog. They capture Lois and Superman trails them to their hideout. While he is distracted they make good their escape, which Superman tracks to a submersible. Covering the windows with a tarpaulin, Superman lifts them gently and deposits them at a police station.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Lois Lane
  • Perry White
  • Barney McGowan
  • Amphi-Bandits [Augie
  • Horace Rikker]
  • Horace Rikker
Credits
  • Pencils:
  • Inks:
Story 4 1 page humor; sports

"We get all this energy from Wheaties, Coach!"

Credits
The Weird Chapeau!
Story 5 5 pages humor; detective-mystery

"When folks get things they do not need..."

Characters
  • Hayfoot Henry
Credits
Story Notes

The text is written in rhyming couplets.

Story 6 1 page
Camouflage for Crime!
Story 7 6 pages adventure; jungle

"Congo Bill, in his endless travels..."

Storyline

Bill foils a gang of diamond smugglers.

Characters
  • Congo Bill
  • Keeler
Credits
Superman's Secret Message
Story 8 0 pages
Gunslinger's Reward
Story 9 2 pages adventure; western-frontier
Characters
  • Spike Martin
  • Judge Hatch
  • Sheriff Harvey Payne
  • Mayor Bond
Credits
Story 10 1 page superhero

"Volto's out-of-this world magnetic powers..."

Picayune Pilferers!
Story 11 10 pages adventure; superhero

"All they really wanted was pretty things to play with..."

Storyline

The Vigilante and Stuff foil a plot whereby crooks pretend to be harmless kleptomaniacs so that a rich society matron will allow them to play in her home with cheap jewelry she has bought to entertain them. This befuddles our heroes, until the time arrives for the criminals to use the layout of the homes they have cased to steal the valuable gems.

Characters
  • The Vigilante [Greg Saunders]
  • Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
  • Mrs. Gladys Muchworth
  • Rattler (crook)
Credits
Bernie Bierman
Story 12 1 page
School Days, School Days!
Story 13 8 pages adventure; fantasy; superhero
Storyline

Zatara has been having lunch with some old friends, but the youngster has to go back to school, complaining how dull it will be after hearing Zatara's tales. Zatara decides to visit the classroom, but in invisible form. He animates the depiction of the Pilgrims being attacked by native Americans in 1632, then takes the class under the ocean, to the top of a volcano, and to the snowy wastes of Alaska, before returning them safely to the classroom, wiser and more enthusiastic about their lessons.

Characters
  • Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
  • Walter
  • Miss Jones
Credits
How Thom McAn Rescued the Doomed Liner
Story 14 1 page adventure
Tops in Comics!
Story 15 1 page
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Story 16 1 page humor; military

"I felt like working overtime, Sarge!"

Story Notes

Back cover.