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Action Comics, #144

Published: May 1950

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Story Featuring Superman

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Clark Kent's Career!

Story Featuring Superman

"The biggest secret in the world is that Superman is really timid Clark Kent..."

Storyline

Flashback story shows how Clark Kent came to Metropolis and got his job at the Daily Planet. Clark first met Perry in Smallville, but Perry doesn't seem to remember him, so he tries to get a job as a policeman instead. He also tries to sell vacuum cleaners.

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Story Notes

Cross over with this month's Adventure Comics, #152.

The Poison Planet!

Story Featuring Tommy Tomorrow

"Even the daring Planeteers are startled when it is proposed to fit up a small planet with rocket-tubes and pilot it like a ship!"

Storyline

Because of the threat posed by poisonous fungus spores drifting through Earth's atmosphere from the planetoid Arkar, Tommy and the Planeteers are instructed to evacuate that world, against its people's wishes, before it can be exiled from the solar system.

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Story Notes

This story is not in Otto Binder's records as as shown in Alter Ego 147.

Story Featuring Jerry the Jitterbug

"And with the costume I got for us, Jerry, we should be a cinch for first prize"

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Dead Man's Gold!

Story Featuring Congo Bill

"Gold plus greed reach across the centuries..."

Storyline

Off the coast of the Caicos Islands, Bill works to recover a shipment of gold lost over 250 years earlier.

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"If I don't reduce a little..."

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Story Featuring Shorty

"Golly, it's muddy out after the rain!"

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Home, Sweet Home!
Storyline

Everyone in Binky's family learns a lesson about being more thoughtful and accommodating to one another.

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Story Notes

Published in cooperation with leading national social welfare and youth-serving organizations. Art credits from Bob Hughes, Gene Reed, Merlin Haas, Edgar Loftin, and Allen Ross. Loftin and Ross question Mayer inks credit. Bob Bailey argues Bob Oksner base with Mayer heads.

Two Dead Men!

Story Featuring Vigilante

"The legends of the West's lost mines are many..."

Storyline

Vigilante is asked to try and find the lost gold mine discovered by Jim Poland and Zeb Lee in 1870. After much futile searching he spies a wall hanging in the home of Don Mariposa, which supposedly shows the exact location.

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Story Featuring Little Pete

"Boy - look at all these snowballs!"

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Pierre St. Amand; Barbara Bittner; Jack Roush; Mary Chase
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Any Gum, Chum?
Storyline

How chewing gum and bubble gum are made.

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Story Notes

Back cover.

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Story Notes

Inside back cover.

Editorial Advisory Board
Superman's Secret Message
Lassoing the Lion
Up, Up and Away!
Pee Wee Reese
Story Notes

Inside front cover.