Action Comics #177

(February 1953)

Superboy Talks About... "The Holiday Spirit!" (Table of Contents: 1)

Superboy / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Win Mortimer

Inks

Win Mortimer

Letters

Ira Schnapp

Genre

advocacy; superhero

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

Anti-Superman Weapon (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Edmond Hamilton ?

Pencils

Al Plastino

Inks

Al Plastino

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

But, "General"...Superman's crushing our newest weapons!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The General; Perry White

Synopsis

The General uses weapons designed by the Nazis but never completed to conduct daring robberies.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Varsity Vic / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pardon me. You look like a decent sort of chap...

Genre

humor

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

Necco / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Tops in Comics! (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Superboy; Mutt & Jeff / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Script

Jack Liebowitz

Letters

typeset

I Rode with the Outlaw Cameleers (Table of Contents: 7)

Congo Bill / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Miller

Pencils

Ed Smalle

Inks

Ed Smalle

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

We are doomed!

Genre

adventure; drama; jungle

Characters

Congo Bill; Miss Calhoun; Culgara; the cameleers

Synopsis

Bill captures a group of caravan raiders by using kittens to frighten their camels.

Reprints

• in All Favourites, The 100-Page Comic (K. G. Murray, 1957 ? series) #6 ([April 1958])

Keywords

Aswan; camels; deserts; disguises; el Farafa Oasis; Libya; Persian cats; stereotyping of Arabs; the Nile River; World Wide Insurance Company

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Tootsie Roll / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Fleer's Dubble Bubble Gum / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Jerry the Jitterbug / comic story / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Everybody's going to this costume ball...

Genre

humor

Superman Is on Television! (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

The Adventures of Superman / advertisement / 0.33 page (report information)

The Children from Space! (Table of Contents: 13)

Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 5.67 pages (report information)

Script

Edmond Hamilton ?

Pencils

Jim Mooney

Inks

Jim Mooney

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

No, you're firing our ray-cannon...

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Captain Brent Wood

Synopsis

Tommy and Brent find a ship's lifeboat floating in space, containing four children abandoned by their parents. They claim to be from Zura, but no such planet is known. Thinking it a misremembering by the children, the Planeteers try a number of planets to no avail. The kids prove to be great scientific inventors and Tommy eventually tricks them into making a truth-confession machine. Under its influence their home world is revealed to be in another star system.

Superman's Secret Message (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

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

Peril at the South Pole (Table of Contents: 15)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Raymond Perry

Inks

Raymond Perry

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Indexer Notes

Art credits submitted by Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

Private Pete / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Pete, run over and pick up three cases of eggs...

Genre

humor; military

Reprints

• in Super Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1950 series) #44 ([January 1954] ?)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Baker's 4 in 1 Instant Cocoa Mix / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Five Bandannas for Vigilante (Table of Contents: 18)

Vigilante / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script

Dick Wood ?

Pencils

Bob Brown

Inks

Russ Heath ?

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The bandanna is the cowboy's trademark...

Genre

adventure; superhero; western-frontier

Characters

Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Black Diamond Gang; Big Ben Dyke (villain)

Synopsis

Ambushed whilst he and Stuff are visiting some ancient cliff dwellings, Vigilante loses his bandanna. He is desperate to regain it before the outlaws see his true face.

Indexer Notes

Keith Chandler: Inks were previously credited to Bob Brown, but there are a number of hands at work here, including (it appears) Russ Heath. Bails' Who's Who has Brown on pencils and 'some inks' on this feature.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 19) (Expand) /

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

Draw Me! (Table of Contents: 20) (Expand) /

Art Instruction, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 21) (Expand) /

Jowett Institute of Physical Training / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 22) (Expand) /

Daisy Air Rifles / advertisement / 1 page (report information)