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Action Comics #163

DC · Series began 1938 · December 1951

Dates

Cover date
December 1951
On sale
October 24, 1951
Pages
44

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Win Mortimer, Wayne Boring, Curt Swan, Ray Thompson, Ed Smalle, Raymond Perry, Henry Boltinoff, Bob Brown, William Schreiber, Fred Harmaninks: Win Mortimer, Stan Kaye, John Fischetti, Ray Thompson, Ed Smalle, Raymond Perry, Henry Boltinoff, Bob Brown, William Schreiber, Fred Harmancolors: Jack Adlerscript: Frank Barber, Henry Boltinoff, William Schreiberletters: Henry Boltinoff

Stories

  • The Girl of Tomorrow · 9.67 pages

    Susan Semple, a receptionist at the Daily Planet, dreams of being romantically involved with Superman. Lois is sent to interview madcap scientist Professor Weirton, but returns denouncing his wild yarn about a cabinet which can change people into super-beings. In desperation, Susan visits him and is subjected to the experimental process. This transforms her into a magnificent mental and physical specimen, and her first aimis to get Superman to marry her.

  • The Junkman of Space! · 5.67 pages

    Tommy and Brent are caught in a space vortex, and all looks hopeless until a salvage cruiser pulls them to safety. This belongs to the so-called "Junkman of Space", Joe Wilson. He brings them to his planet and fixes up their ship. He then shows them a group of older vessels which he has salvaged and reconstructed.

  • The Bandit Ghost! · 4 pages

    Bill exposes an extortion ring in a small Italian village.

  • Talking Cats · 2 pages
  • The Strangest Posse in the World! · 7.67 pages

    Duke Parker has been unable to get help to make his cattle drive to market since a band of raiders attacked the herd. But Vigilante gathers together an oddball group of cowpokes and leads the beef to market, in the process exposing Parker's supposed friend and neighbor Dod Summers as the leader of the outlaws.

Reprinted in

Superman (1939), The Hundred Comic Monthly (1956)

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