Action Comics
#137
(October 1949)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1949-08-10
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
A Superman DC Publication
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hold on, Superman! This looks like a job for Lois Lane!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
- Reprints
-
in Superman in Action Comics (Abbeville Press, 1993 series) #1 (1993) - in Superman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2006 series) ([August] 2006)
- in Lois Lane: A Celebration of 75 Years (DC, 2013 series) (2013 [January 2014])
-
in Superman Anthologie (Panini Deutschland, 2018 series) (2018)
-
- Keywords
- revolvers
Editorial Advisory Board
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
[no title indexed]
World's Finest Comics; Wonder Woman; Comic Cavalcade / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.67 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Want action?
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Man with the Charmed Life!
Superman / comic story / 12 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The colossal powers of Superman...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Percival Winters; "Flint" Martin (villain)
- Synopsis
- Superman saves the life of Percival Winters, a star witness against a mobster, on one hundred occasions. Winters is annoyed, as he believes a ring he wears bestows complete protection against danger. Superman proves it to be a fraud, but not before it passes to Lois Lane, who puts herself in reckless danger and has to be saved by Superman.
- Reprints
in The Case of the 50 Year Old Clue
Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure
Tommy Tomorrow's Trip to Today!
Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Would you like to meet Colonel Tommy Tomorrow...
- Genre
- adventure; science fiction
- Characters
- Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
- Synopsis
- Tommy tests a recently invented time machine, which takes him forty years into the past of 1949, but no one believes he is from the future.
[no title indexed]
Little Pete / comic story / 0.5 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If a man has twenty-four apples...
- Genre
- humor; children
The Banquet of Sun Liu!
Congo Bill / comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Because the World-Wide Insurance Company insures the bones of a man dead half a million years...
- Genre
- adventure; jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Harivs Chapley; Sun Liu
- Synopsis
- Bill helps an anthropologist get a set of caveman bones out of China, despite interference from Japanese thugs left in China after the war.
- Keywords
- anthropology; China; Cossack drag; Hong Kong; human skeletons; Lanchow (Chinese city); soporific drugs; the Feast Where All Men Die; trick riding; Tunk Valley; World Wide Insurance Company
[no title indexed]
Jerry the Jitterbug / comic story / 0.67 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Okay, you win -- We'll go to the costume ball as tramps!
- Genre
- humor
Movie Stars Are -- Human
text article / 2 pages
- Genre
- non-fiction
Indexer Notes
Art credits from Saltarella via the GCD Error Tracker.
[no title indexed]
Shorty / comic story / 2 pages
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hmm -- I'll show them!
- Genre
- humor
Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk
Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
The Headless Horseman Rides Again!
Vigilante / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who doesn't recall Washington Irving's thrilling classic...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff; Dudley Farnay
Buzzy Says Stay in School - Give Yourself a Break!
Buzzy / public service announcement / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; advocacy; teen
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Hold on, Superman! This looks like a job for Lois Lane!"]
Superman -
1.
Editorial Advisory Board
-
2.
["Want action?"]
World's Finest Comics; Wonder Woman; Comic Cavalcade -
3.
The Man with the Charmed Life!
Superman -
4.
Lou Boudreau
Wheaties -
5.
The Case of the 50 Year Old Clue
Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream-Oil -
6.
Tommy Tomorrow's Trip to Today!
Tommy Tomorrow -
7.
Rescue from the Ravine
Ray-o-Vac -
8.
["If a man has twenty-four apples..."]
Little Pete -
9.
[no title indexed]
Superman Socks -
10.
The Banquet of Sun Liu!
Congo Bill -
11.
Mountain Rescue
Bazooka the Atom Bubble Boy -
12.
Superman's Secret Message
-
13.
["Okay, you win -- We'll go to the costume ball as tramps!"]
Jerry the Jitterbug -
14.
Movie Stars Are -- Human
-
15.
["Hmm -- I'll show them!"]
Shorty -
16.
[no title indexed]
Shoot-a-Top -
17.
Follow the Danger Trail with Tomahawk
Tomahawk; Star Spangled Comics -
18.
The Headless Horseman Rides Again!
Vigilante -
19.
Buzzy Says Stay in School - Give Yourself a Break!
Buzzy -
20.
[no title indexed]
Rubber-for-Molds, Inc. -
21.
Hollywood's Top Adventure Star!
The Adventures of Alan Ladd -
22.
Rope 'Em Both, Partner!
Daisy B-B Guns
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Keith Chandler
- Gregory Fischer
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Matthew Head
- Tony R. Rose
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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