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CATALOG RECORD

Action Comics #177

DC · Series began 1938 · February 1953

Dates

Cover date
February 1953
On sale
December 24, 1952
Pages
44

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Al Plastino, Win Mortimer, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, Ray Thompson, Jim Mooney, Raymond Perry, Bob Brown, Fred Harmaninks: Al Plastino, Win Mortimer, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, Ray Thompson, Jim Mooney, Raymond Perry, Fred Harmancolors: Jack Adlerscript: Jack Schiff, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Liebowitz, Jack Millerletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • Anti-Superman Weapon · 12 pages

    The General uses weapons designed by the Nazis but never completed to conduct daring robberies.

  • I Rode with the Outlaw Cameleers · 5.67 pages

    Bill captures a group of caravan raiders by using kittens to frighten their camels.

  • The Children from Space! · 5.67 pages

    Tommy and Brent find a ship's lifeboat floating in space, containing four children abandoned by their parents. They claim to be from Zura, but no such planet is known. Thinking it a misremembering by the children, the Planeteers try a number of planets to no avail. The kids prove to be great scientific inventors and Tommy eventually tricks them into making a truth-confession machine. Under its influence their home world is revealed to be in another star system.

  • Peril at the South Pole · 2 pages
  • Five Bandannas for Vigilante · 7.67 pages

    Ambushed whilst he and Stuff are visiting some ancient cliff dwellings, Vigilante loses his bandanna. He is desperate to regain it before the outlaws see his true face.

Reprinted in

Super Adventure Comic (1950), All Favourites, The 100-Page Comic (1957)

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