Action Comics #238

(March 1958)

The Super-Gorilla from Krypton (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Wayne Boring

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; King Krypton; Jimmy Olsen

Synopsis:

Jimmy summons Superman to Africa with his signal-watch when he encounters a gorilla with super-powers. Superman deduces that the giant ape is from Krypton, and later it sacrifices itself to save Superman from Green Kryptonite, revealing that it was really a Kryptonian human accidentally transformed into a gorilla.

Reprints:

• in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #7 (Summer 1963)
• in Super-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas (DC, 1976 series) #1 (Winter 1976)

Keywords:

gorilla; Green Kryptonite

DC Presents Lois Lane (Table of Contents)

Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Curt Swan

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lois Lane; Superman

Indexer Notes

house ad for Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #1, on sale January 14

["Yes, sir, you must lead a pretty rugged life!"] (Table of Contents)

Chief Hot Foot / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Chief Hot Foot

["XZUJWRFS XFDX YMFY..."] (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

membership application form for the Supermen of America; also includes message in secret code (Code Saturn No. 5)
decoded message reads: "Superman says that the power to think is the mightiest power of all."

["You stay here and answer when I shout!"] (Table of Contents)

Ollie / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Ollie

Marooned in the Fourth Dimension (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Jim Mooney

Inks:

Jim Mooney

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Characters:

Tommy Tomorrow; Prof. Jaxon ["Genius" Jones]; Space Looter

Synopsis:

Tommy Tomorrow checks out Prof. Jaxon's dimension cabinet, a gateway to the 4th dimension. Since Tommy suspects the cabinet is a hoax, he volunteers to test the device and is sent to the 4th dimension. But Tommy doesn't realize that he has fallen for the real plot of the professor, who actually wanted to get rid of him. When Tommy realizes that things happen a day later in the 4th dimension, Tommy takes the place of that world's Tommy Tomorrow in testing that world's dimension cabinet and returns to arrest the professor and his accomplice.

Reprints:

• in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) #[nn] ([October] 1990)
• in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) #[nn] (1992)

Indexer Notes

reprint information from Arthur Lortie

["So this is your uncle's funeral?"] (Table of Contents)

Chuckle Box / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

? (logo illustration)

Inks:

? (logo illustration)

Colors:

? (logo illustration)

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Indexer Notes

page of jokes

["Golly! I caught you red-handed!"] (Table of Contents)

Casey the Cop / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Casey the Cop

Do You Know What's Behind a Law? (Table of Contents)

public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Bob Brown

Inks:

Bob Brown

Colors:

?

Letters:

Ira Schnapp

Content Information

Genre:

non-fiction

Synopsis:

Jerry learns the importance of driver's education.

Indexer Notes

published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly

The Tenderfoot Hunter (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Howard Sherman

Inks:

Howard Sherman

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

jungle

Characters:

Congo Bill; Janu; Caspar Quirt

Synopsis:

Congo Bill must deal with a man on his safari who learned everything he knows about the jungle from a correspondence course.