Action Comics
#228
(May 1957)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1957-03-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Jack Schiff (managing editor); Mort Weisinger (assistant editor); George Kashdan (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Superman's Super-Skyscraper
Superman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That skyscraper Superman is building is miles high already!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Universe
- DC : mainstream
- Reprints
- Keywords
- construction; helicopters
in 
Superman's Super Skyscraper
Superman / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Superman's new skyscraper is already miles high...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lois Lane; Lex Luthor (flashback); Jimmy Olsen; Superboy [Clark Kent] (flashback); Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Jay Amery (villain, racket leader)
- Universe
- DC : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Superman constructs a skyscraper in Metropolis and turns it into a museum of his past cases.
- Keywords
- Superman Museum
Indexer Notes
Writer credit by Bob Hughes. Synopsis by Darkmark.
[no title indexed]
Quick Quiz / activity / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- How did the custom of shaking hands originate?
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Reprints
-
from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #53 (August-September 1951)
-
Wings and Winnie Winchester Do a Good Deed
Winchester Super Speed Roller Skates / advertisement / 0.33 page
[no title indexed]
Varsity Vic / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm glad you're all right now, Bill!
- Genre
- humor; teen
- Characters
- Vic; Bill
The Gorilla King of the Jungle
Congo Bill / comic story / 5.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Kongorilla can't be that intelligent!
- Genre
- adventure; drama; jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Janu, the Jungle Boy; Kongorilla (first appearance, unrelated to the later Congorilla); Sam Westly (Kongorilla's keeper); Chief Wabanga
- Universe
- DC : mainstream
- Synopsis
- A former Hollywood animal star, Kongorilla is being returned to the jungle, but his former trainer tries to prove the ape has human intelligence.
[no title indexed]
Lionel and His Lions / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I hear Jo-Jo is leaving the circus with the dog act...
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Lionel
- Reprints
-
in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #15 ([August 1957] ?)
-
Space Dreams for Sale
Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Let's put these racketeers to "sleep", Brent!
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- The Planeteers: Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood
dream peddlers - Universe
- DC : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Tommy and Brent raid a racketeer base on a nameless asteroid, and find a device which transmits dream images directly into the brains of sleepers.
- Reprints
- in The Hundred Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 ? series) #13 ([October 1957] ?)
-
in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1960 series) #62 (1961) [N&B [B&W]] - in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #33 (1977) [N&B [B&W]]
-
- Keywords
- 2057 AD
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Superman's Super-Skyscraper
Superman -
1.
[no title indexed]
The National Sports Council -
2.
Superman's Super Skyscraper
Superman -
3.
["How did the custom of shaking hands originate?"]
Quick Quiz -
4.
Wings and Winnie Winchester Do a Good Deed
Winchester Super Speed Roller Skates -
5.
["I'm glad you're all right now, Bill!"]
Varsity Vic -
6.
The Gorilla King of the Jungle
Congo Bill -
7.
Superman's Secret Message
Supermen of America -
8.
["Here are some of the winners in the DC Slogan Contest..."]
-
9.
["I hear Jo-Jo is leaving the circus with the dog act..."]
Lionel and His Lions -
10.
Space Dreams for Sale
Tommy Tomorrow -
11.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales -
12.
A Date with Effie
-
13.
Jim and Betty Solve the "Flying Saucer" Mystery!
Wilson Chemical Co.
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Bill Borre
- John Censullo
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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