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Action Comics #185

DC · Series began 1938 · October 1953

Dates

Cover date
October 1953
On sale
August 26, 1953
Pages
44

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Al Plastino, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, Ray Thompson, Win Mortimer, Jim Mooney, Raymond Perryinks: Al Plastino, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, Ray Thompson, Win Mortimer, Jim Mooney, Raymond Perryscript: Henry Boltinoff, Jack Miller, Jack Schiffletters: Henry Boltinoff, Ira Schnapp

Stories

  • Superman's Million Dollar Photos! · 12 pages

    A meteor smashes through the window of the Superman photo exhibit at the Superman Hall of Trophies and destroys the vast collection of photos showing Superman in action. Isaah Pendleton offers $50 for every photo of Superman readers of the Planet send him. He then proceeds to set fire to them, al except the photo album he bought from Lois. Those 500 photos are now the only ones in existence and Pendleton auctions them to the highest bidder.

  • The Hidden City! · 5.67 pages

    Bill journeys to Tibet to inform a travel writer that his uncle has died and left him a million pounds.

  • The Cosmic Jigsaw Puzzle! · 5.67 pages

    Tommy hunts for the colossal weapon invented by the missing scientist Dr. Malden, but others with less altruistic motives are also after it.

  • How to Find a Million Dollars · 2 pages
  • The Treasure of Get-Rich Creek! · 8 pages

    Lawyer Deems forces Joyce Terrill under threat of bodily harm to sign away her claim to an inherited gold mine. But The Vigilante finds small sacks of gold dust which her uncle had left buried under a tree near a river bank. As she had signed under duress the claim is still hers.

Reprinted in

Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (1956), DC Finest: Science Fiction: The Gorilla World (2025)

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