Action Comics
#238
(March 1958)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1958-01-30
- 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); Mort Weisinger (actual)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Take this, Superman!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; King Krypton
- Reprints
-
in Stålmannen (Centerförlaget, 1949 series) #23/1958 -
in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992) [cover illustration] - in Superman in Action Comics (Abbeville Press, 1993 series) #1 (1993)
- in The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s (Abbeville Press, 1995 series) (1995)
-
- Keywords
- apes; gorilla
Indexer Notes
Credit for cover letterer from Brian Lamken via the Error Tracker.
[no title indexed]
Jowett Institute of Physical Training / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Super-Gorilla from Krypton
Superman / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our spears have no effect on devil beast!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; King Krypton
- 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 (Atlas Publishing, 1951 series) #1960 - 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
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]
Indexer Notes
house ad for Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #1, on sale January 14
[no title indexed]
Chief Hot Foot / comic story / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Yes sir, you must lead a pretty rugged life!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Chief Hot Foot
- Reprints
- from Tomahawk (DC, 1950 series) #14 (November-December 1952)
-
[no title indexed]
Supermen of America / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- XZUJWRFS XFDX YMFY...
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."
[no title indexed]
Ollie / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Job Number
- #3018
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You stay here and answer when I shout!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Ollie
Marooned in the Fourth Dimension
Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Kool tuo!
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- The Planeteers: Commander; Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
Lenoloc Ymmot Worromot (the Tommy Tomorrow of the Mirror Universe); "Genius" Jones (posing as Professor Jaxon); The Space Looter; Electric-Man from Neptune; Space Alcatraz warden - Universe
- DC : mainstream
- 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 Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1960 series) #46 (1960), #64 (décembre 1961) - in Big Boss (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #27 (1976) [N&B [B&W]]
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1990 series) (1990 [January 1991])
- in The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told (DC, 1992 series) ([May] 1992)
-
- Keywords
- Asteroid X-33; Mirror Universe; Space Alcatraz
Indexer Notes
reprint information from Arthur Lortie
[no title indexed]
Chuckle Box / text article / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- ? (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- So this is your uncle's funeral?
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
page of jokes
[no title indexed]
Casey the Cop / comic story / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Golly! I caught you red-handed!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Casey the Cop
- Reprints
- from Gang Busters (DC, 1947 series) #19 (December 1950-January 1951)
-
Do You Know What's Behind a Law?
public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- advocacy
- Synopsis
- Jerry learns the importance of driver's education.
Indexer Notes
published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
The Tenderfoot Hunter
Congo Bill / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Good grief - - How does Casper Quirt expect to stop a Cape buffalo charge with that spinning propellor for a weapon?!
- Genre
- adventure; drama; jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Janu, the Jungle Boy; Casper Quirt
- Universe
- DC : mainstream
- Synopsis
- Congo Bill must deal with a man on his safari who learned everything he knows about the jungle from a correspondence course.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes / advertisement / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla!
Superman -
1.
[no title indexed]
Jowett Institute of Physical Training -
2.
The Super-Gorilla from Krypton
Superman -
3.
DC Presents Lois Lane
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane -
4.
["Yes sir, you must lead a pretty rugged life!"]
Chief Hot Foot -
5.
["XZUJWRFS XFDX YMFY..."]
Supermen of America -
6.
["You stay here and answer when I shout!"]
Ollie -
7.
Marooned in the Fourth Dimension
Tommy Tomorrow -
8.
["So this is your uncle's funeral?"]
Chuckle Box -
9.
["Golly! I caught you red-handed!"]
Casey the Cop -
10.
Do You Know What's Behind a Law?
-
11.
The Tenderfoot Hunter
Congo Bill -
12.
[no title indexed]
American Seeds -
13.
[no title indexed]
Littleton Stamps -
14.
[no title indexed]
Stephens Credit Sales Mottoes -
15.
[no title indexed]
Junior Sales Club of America Cards
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- John Censullo
- Keith Chandler
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
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- Jim Van Dore
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