Action Comics #219

(August 1956)

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Wilson Chemical Company Cloverine Brand Salve / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Superman's Treasure Hoard (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Bill Finger

Pencils

Wayne Boring

Inks

Stan Kaye

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Look...There goes Super-Miser with more treasure for his hoard!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Art Shaler (crook); Doctor Vandin

Synopsis

Superman suddenly uses his powers to smelt raw gold into ingots. crush coal into diamonds, and collect giant pearls. All these he takes to a cave, and when Lois follows him there she is astounded to find that he has become a super miser. With the location revealed, Superman realizes that crooks will attempt to steal his treasure, so he fashions a steel door to hang across the entrance to the cave. The whole scheme is designed to trap the crook who stole an experimental atomic cutting torch.

Mike Was a Rolling Menace Until... (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

U. S. Royal Bicycle Tires [U. S. Royal Bike Tires; U. S. Royal Tires; U. S. Bike Tires; Uniroyal] / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Howie / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Sam, I do believe we're going to have another businessman in the family!

Genre

humor; teen

Reprints

• from Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #39 (January-February 1950)

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Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

The Amazing Army of Apes! (Table of Contents: 6)

Congo Bill / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Miller

Pencils

Ed Smalle

Inks

Ed Smalle

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Congo Bill has witnessed many amazing sights in the jungle...

Genre

adventure; drama; jungle

Characters

Congo Bill; Janu of the Jungle; Chota (chimpanzee); the General

Synopsis

A military officer appears to go crazy and starts to think apes are his soldiers.

Reprints

• in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #33 (1959)

Keywords

apes; blowguns; diamonds; idols; Kurudu (African village)

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promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Shorty / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

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Henry Boltinoff (signed)

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

How do you like this room?

Genre

humor

Reprints

• in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #151 (February 1962)

Superman's Secret Message (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Supermen of America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

The Day I Beat the Baseball Jinx (Table of Contents: 10)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Miller

Pencils

Raymond Perry

Inks

Raymond Perry

Colors

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Letters

typeset

The Tom Thumb Tommy Tomorrow (Table of Contents: 11)

Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

Jim Mooney

Inks

Jim Mooney

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Help! Let me out!

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood; Pluto Pete (crook)

Synopsis

Tommy and Brent find an abandoned desert planet which was evidently once home to an advanced civilization. They bring one of the machines found there back to Earth and Tommy volunteers to subject himself to the unknown rays. As a result he begins to shrink, eventually reaching microscopic size, at which point he encounters the inhabitants of the abandoned world, who had deliberately shrunk themselves when their planet could no longer sustain life. Rather than be restored to full size, they opt to live in the Planeteers' refrigerator.

Peter Porkchops Solves "The Case of the Careless Camper!" (Table of Contents: 12)

Peter Porkchops / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Rube Grossman

Inks

Rube Grossman

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Genre

advocacy; anthropomorphic-funny animals

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Disneyland Color Television Set / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)