Action Comics #242

(July 1958)

Are You a Litter Bug? (Table of Contents)

Little Pete / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Schiff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

children

Indexer Notes

no dialogue

The Super-Duel in Space (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Al Plastino

Inks:

Al Plastino

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman (brief origin); Lois Lane; Brainiac (villain, intro); Professor Kimda; Superboy (flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Superboy (flashback); Kandor (intro); Fortress of Solitude

Synopsis:

While on an experimental rocket, Clark and Lois encounter the alien Brainiac, who plans to shrink and bottle the great cities of Earth and then use them to repopulate his planet. Superman gets inside Brainiac’s ship when the villain snatches Metropolis and there finds a bottle with the Kryptonian city of Kandor. He enters the bottle and with the help of a scientist there restores the cities of Earth while Brainiac lies in suspended animation for his trip home. Because there is not enough power to restore Kandor, Superman places the city in his Fortress, as Brainiac rockets away empty-handed.

Reprints:

• in Superman (K. G. Murray, 1947 series) #134 ([September 1958])
• in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #2 (1960 [January 1961])
• in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #217 (June-July 1969)
• in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G60 (June-July 1969)
• in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #15/1969 ([november] 1969)
• in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #[nn] (1983)
• in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #[nn] ([September] 2002)
• in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([September] 2004)
• in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1 ([September] 2005)
• in Superman: The Bottle City of Kandor (DC, 2007 series) #[nn] ([October] 2007)

["It is not! It Is! I know!"] (Table of Contents)

Little Pete / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Job Number:

3039

Content Information

Genre:

children; humor

Reprints:

• in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #277 (June 1961)

The Traffic Cop of 2058, A.D. (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; Brent Wood

["I hear there's lots of moose around here!"] (Table of Contents)

Shorty / filler / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Reprints:

• from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #76 (April-May 1953)

Meet the Space Ranger (Table of Contents)

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

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Bob Brown

Inks:

Bob Brown

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction

Synopsis:

House ad for Showcase #15.

Gag Bag (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Letters:

typeset

Safari From Space (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; Xov (villain)

[Pacific Manta] (Table of Contents)

Nature Wonderland / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Martin Naydel

Pencils:

Martin Naydel

Inks:

Martin Naydel

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

fact