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Action Comics #159

DC · Series began 1938 · August 1951

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Dates

Cover date: August 1951
On sale: June 18, 1951
Pages: 52

Editions and covers

Original edition
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Creators

pencils: Win Mortimer, Wayne Boring, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, William Schreiber, Ray Thompson, Curt Swan, Raymond Perry, Horace Elmo, Bob Brown, Otto Feuerinks: Win Mortimer, Stan Kaye, Henry Boltinoff, Ed Smalle, William Schreiber, Ray Thompson, John Fischetti, Raymond Perry, Horace Elmo, Bob Brown, Otto Feuercolors: Jack Adlerscript: Henry Boltinoff, William Schreiber, S. Minton, Horace Elmo, Jack Schiffletters: Henry Boltinoff, Horace Elmo, Ira Schnapp

Stories

The Man Who Owned Superman · 12 pages
Lois tricks Superman into signing a promise to do whatever she asks for three days, but then she loses the paper and Oswald Whimple finds it.
Showdown in Suez! · 6 pages
Bill pursues a gang of jewel thieves with the help of a reporter from Texas.
The Planeteer from the Past! · 8 pages
Returning to Earth, Tommy and Brent find the wreck of a spaceship launched during the 1950s. Boarding the ship they find the pilot still at the controls, but he is not dead, merely frozen by the cold of space. They revive him and hear his amazing story.
Monster of the Sea · 2 pages
The Trigger Trail of "Wild" Eddie Meeks! · 10 pages
At age seventeen Eddie Meeks is a sharpshooter with a pistol, but is reckless with a mean streak. His stint as a deputy results in the sheriff letting him go, so he embarks on a career as a bounty hunter. He has no compunctions about bring them back dead, providing there is a reward in it, even to shooting a crook in the back.

Reprinted in

Superman (1939), The Adventures of Bob Hope (1950), Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (1954)