Action Comics, #100
Published: September 1946
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Issue Contents:
The Sleuth Who Never Failed
Characters
- Superman
- Inspector Hawkins
- Clark Kent
Credits
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Ed Dobrotka
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Sleuth Who Never Failed!
"Many are the battles fought by the Man of Steel..."
Storyline
Inspector Hawkins tries to trap Clark Kent into revealing he is Superman.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Inspector Hawkins (introduction)
- Lois Lane
Credits
- Script:
- Pencils:
- Inks: (uncertain)
Story Notes
Inker id by Bob Hughes. Ideas, themes and plot devices from this story form the basis for most of the "Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is Superman" stories of the next two decades.
Credits
- Pencils: Graham Hunter
- Inks: Graham Hunter
Johnny Mize
The Rhyming Horse!
"This is a tale of betrayal and worse..."
Characters
- Hayfoot Henry
Credits
- Script: Al Schwartz
- Pencils: Stan Kaye
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Story Notes
The text is written in rhyming couplets.
The Case of the Captive Seals!
Editorial Advisory Board
K Is the Letter for Kangaroo
Indian Sign
Credits
- Script: Ben Ballard
Story Notes
Sequence added by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
Featuring Sunshine Nelly
"That's bright li'l me..."
Credits
- Script: Jack Callahan
- Pencils: Jack Callahan
- Inks: Jack Callahan
The Book That Was Too Real!
"J. Scriver Tome, crime fiction author..."
Storyline
J. Scriver Tome is the author of successful crime novels. A gang of crooks uses his plots to commit crimes until The Vigilante and Stuff step in.
Characters
- The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
- Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
- J. Scriver Tome
- Blast Beadle (reformed crook)
Credits
- Script: Don C. Cameron
- Pencils: Mort Meskin
- Inks: George Roussos
Here's a Fact Magazine with Superman Punch!
Featuring Real Fact Comics
Supermen of America
Magic -- Past or Present!
"Outside the circle of the living..."
Storyline
The spirits of great magicians of past ages return to challenge the young upstart Zatara, but he outwits them at every turn. Having been declared by his peers the greatest magician of all time, he wakes up, unsure whether the experience was real or merely a dream.
Characters
- Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
- Merlin
- Toth
- the Delphic Ooracle
- Appolonius
- Cagliostro
- Morpheus
Credits
- Script: Don C. Cameron
- Pencils: Edouard Manet
- Inks: Edouard Manet
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
How to Avoid These "Booby Traps" in Your Home!
Story Notes
Back cover.