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Action Comics #144

DC · Series began 1938 · May 1950

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Dates

Cover date: May 1950
On sale: March 13, 1950
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Al Plastino, Wayne Boring, Curt Swan, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, Lit-Win, Raymond Perry, Sheldon Mayer, Dan Barry, Stookie Allen, Fred Harmaninks: Al Plastino, Stan Kaye, John Fischetti, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, Lit-Win, Raymond Perry, Dan Barry, Stookie Allen, Fred Harmancolors: Jack Adlerscript: Al Schwartz, Henry Boltinoff, Lit-Win, Jack Schiff, Gardner Fox, Stookie Allenletters: Henry Boltinoff, Ira Schnapp, Stookie Allen

Stories

Clark Kent's Career! · 12 pages
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.
The Poison Planet! · 8 pages
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.
Dead Man's Gold! · 6 pages
Off the coast of the Caicos Islands, Bill works to recover a shipment of gold lost over 250 years earlier.
Any Gum, Chum? · 2 pages
How chewing gum and bubble gum are made.
Two Dead Men! · 10 pages
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.
Pierre St. Amand; Barbara Bittner; Jack Roush; Mary Chase · 1 pages

Reprinted in

Adventure Comics (1938), A Date with Judy (1947), Sugar & Spike (1956), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)