Action Comics #242

(July 1958)

Are You a Litter-Bug? (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Genre

advocacy; children; humor

Indexer Notes

Inside front cover. No dialogue.

The Super-Duel in Space (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

Al Plastino

Inks

Al Plastino

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

superhero

Characters

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

Synopsis

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

Reprints

• in Super DC (Thorpe & Porter, 1969 series) #9, #9
• in Superman (K. G. Murray, 1947 series) #134 ([September 1958])
• in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #2 ([Winter] 1960)
• in Superman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1964 series) #26 (Junho de 1966)
• in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #217 (June-July 1969)
• in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #15/1969 ([november] 1969)
• in Политикин Забавник [Politikin zabavnik] (Политика [Politika], 1952 series) #1000 (26. novembar 1971.) [Reformatted from the original 13 page story. 8-15 panels per page.]
• in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, 1983 series) (1983)
• in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) ([November] 2002)
• in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1 ([November] 2004)
• in Showcase Presents: Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1 ([November] 2005)
• in Superman: The Bottle City of Kandor (DC, 2007 series) ([December] 2007)
• in Superman vs. Brainiac (DC, 2008 series) (2008 [January 2009])
• in Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2013 series) (2013 [January 2014])
• in DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection (Eaglemoss Publications, 2015 series) #28 - Superman - Brainiac
• in Action Comics 80 Years of Superman: The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2018 series) ([June] 2018)
• in Superman Anthologie (Panini Deutschland, 2018 series) (2018)
• in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2021 series) (2020 [April 2021])

Keywords

Fortress of Solitude; Kandor (introduction)

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

Little Pete / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Inks

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff (signed)

Job Number

3039

First Line of Dialogue or Text

It is not!" "It Is! I know!

Genre

humor; children

Reprints

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

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

Roadmaster / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Traffic Cop of 2058, A.D. (Table of Contents: 5)

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

Script

Otto Binder

Pencils

Jim Mooney

Inks

Jim Mooney

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Tommy Tomorrow; Brent Wood

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

Shorty / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils

Henry Boltinoff

Inks

Henry Boltinoff

Colors

?

Letters

Henry Boltinoff

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I hear there's lots of moose around here!

Genre

humor

Reprints

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Palisades Amusement Park / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Meet the Space Ranger (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

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

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

Gag Bag / text article / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Safari from Space! (Table of Contents: 10)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Howard Sherman

Inks

Howard Sherman

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

jungle; adventure

Characters

Congo Bill; Janu; Xov (villain)

[Pacific Manta] (Table of Contents: 11)

Nature Wonderland / cartoon / 1 page (report information)

Script

Martin Naydel

Pencils

Martin Naydel

Inks

Martin Naydel

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction; nature

Reprints

• from Leading Screen Comics (DC, 1950 series) #59 (February-March 1953)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Stephens Credit Sales / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

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

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14) (Expand) /

Garcelon Stamp Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)