Action Comics, #137
Published: October 1949
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"Hold on, Superman! This looks like a job for Lois Lane!"
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Lois Lane
Credits
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Stan Kaye
- Colors: Jack Adler
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Featuring World's Finest Comics; Wonder Woman; Comic Cavalcade
"Want action?"
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
The Man with the Charmed Life!
"The colossal powers of Superman..."
Storyline
Superman saves the life of Percival Winters, a star witness against a mobster, on one hundred occasions. Winters is annoyed, as he believes a ring he wears bestows complete protection against danger. Superman proves it to be a fraud, but not before it passes to Lois Lane, who puts herself in reckless danger and has to be saved by Superman.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Lois Lane
- Perry White
- Percival Winters
- "Flint" Martin (villain)
Credits
- Script: Edmond Hamilton
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Lou Boudreau
The Case of the 50 Year Old Clue
Tommy Tomorrow's Trip to Today!
"Would you like to meet Colonel Tommy Tomorrow..."
Storyline
Tommy tests a recently invented time machine, which takes him forty years into the past of 1949, but no one believes he is from the future.
Characters
- Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
Credits
- Script: Otto Binder
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: John Fischetti
Rescue from the Ravine
"If a man has twenty-four apples..."
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
The Banquet of Sun Liu!
"Because the World-Wide Insurance Company insures the bones of a man dead half a million years..."
Storyline
Bill helps an anthropologist get a set of caveman bones out of China, despite interference from Japanese thugs left in China after the war.
Characters
- Congo Bill
- Harivs Chapley
- Sun Liu
Mountain Rescue
Superman's Secret Message
"Okay, you win -- We'll go to the costume ball as tramps!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Movie Stars Are -- Human
Credits
- Pencils: Luca Maresca (uncertain)
- Inks: Luca Maresca (uncertain)
Story Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
"Hmm -- I'll show them!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk
Featuring Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics
The Headless Horseman Rides Again!
Buzzy Says Stay in School - Give Yourself a Break!
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Graham Place
- Inks: Graham Place
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Hollywood's Top Adventure Star!
Featuring The Adventures of Alan Ladd
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
Rope 'Em Both, Partner!
Story Notes
Back cover.