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Action Comics #238

DC · Series began 1938 · March 1958

Dates

Cover date
March 1958
On sale
January 30, 1958
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Bob Brown, Howard Shermaninks: Stan Kaye, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Bob Brown, Howard Shermanletters: Ira Schnapp, Henry Boltinoffscript: Otto Binder, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Schiff

Stories

  • The Super-Gorilla from Krypton · 12 pages

    Jimmy summons Superman to Africa with his signal-watch when he encounters a gorilla with super-powers. Superman deduces that the giant ape is from Krypton, and later it sacrifices itself to save Superman from Green Kryptonite, revealing that it was really a Kryptonian human accidentally transformed into a gorilla.

  • Marooned in the Fourth Dimension · 6 pages

    Tommy Tomorrow checks out Prof. Jaxon's dimension cabinet, a gateway to the 4th dimension. Since Tommy suspects the cabinet is a hoax, he volunteers to test the device and is sent to the 4th dimension. But Tommy doesn't realize that he has fallen for the real plot of the professor, who actually wanted to get rid of him. When Tommy realizes that things happen a day later in the 4th dimension, Tommy takes the place of that world's Tommy Tomorrow in testing that world's dimension cabinet and returns to arrest the professor and his accomplice.

  • Chuckle Box · 1 pages
  • The Tenderfoot Hunter · 6 pages

    Congo Bill must deal with a man on his safari who learned everything he knows about the jungle from a correspondence course.

Characters

Clark KentSupermanJimmy OlsenColonel Tommy TomorrowCongo BillCasey the CopOllieChief Hot FootJanuCommander

Reprinted in

Superman Annual (1951), Superman Annual (1960), Super-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas (1976), The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (1990), The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (1992)

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