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Action Comics #220

DC · Series began 1938 · September 1956

Dates

Cover date
September 1956
On sale
July 24, 1956
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Al Plastino, Ray Thompson, Henry Boltinoff, Howard Sherman, Raymond Perry, Jim Mooneyinks: Al Plastino, Ray Thompson, Henry Boltinoff, Howard Sherman, Raymond Perry, Jim Mooneycolors: Jack Adlerscript: Henry Boltinoff, Jack Schiff, Otto Binderletters: Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Interplanetary Olympics · 10 pages

    Superman is irresistibly drawn to the planet Thon, where he is invited to compete in the Interplanetary Olympics against mighty heroes of two other worlds.

  • Congo Bill, Stone Age Man · 6 pages

    Bill and Janu stumble into a lost underground world full of prehistoric animals and primitive cave men. Bill teaches the men some fundamentals which will make their lives easier, such as the wheel and simple irrigation. The existence of this unlikely habitat is explained when Bill finds a set of photographs, which reveal that the animals were stranded on Earth when a ship belonging to some inter-planetary cowboys was forced off-course.

  • School for Cowboys · 1 pages
  • The Flying Dutchman of Space · 6 pages

    When their ship is damaged by an asteroid, Tommy and Brent are rescued by a ship decked out to resemble the old Earth legend of The Flying Dutchman. Its skipper, once Professor Cedric Hall, explains how an accident caused the loss of many lives, after which he went into self-exile, making his ship recognizable to all and never again to dock in an occupied port.

Reprinted in

Five-Score Comic Monthly (1958), Mammoth Annual (1959)

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