Action Comics #144

(May 1950)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Kodak / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Clark Kent's Career! (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages (report information)

Script

Al Schwartz

Pencils

Wayne Boring

Inks

Stan Kaye

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The biggest secret in the world is that Superman is really timid Clark Kent...

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane

Synopsis

Flashback story shows how Clark Kent came to Metropolis and got his job at the Daily Planet. Clark first met Perry in Smallville, but Perry doesn't seem to remember him, so he tries to get a job as a policeman instead. He also tries to sell vacuum cleaners.

Indexer Notes

Cross over with this month's Adventure Comics, #152.

Pee Wee Reese (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Wheaties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Up, Up and Away! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

World's Finest Comics; Superman / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

The Poison Planet! (Table of Contents: 5)

Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Edmond Hamilton ?

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

John Fischetti

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Even the daring Planeteers are startled when it is proposed to fit up a small planet with rocket-tubes and pilot it like a ship!

Genre

adventure; science fiction

Characters

Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Dr. Norden

Synopsis

Because of the threat posed by poisonous fungus spores drifting through Earth's atmosphere from the planetoid Arkar, Tommy and the Planeteers are instructed to evacuate that world, against its people's wishes, before it can be exiled from the solar system.

Indexer Notes

This story is not in Otto Binder's records as as shown in Alter Ego 147.

Lassoing the Lion (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

"U. S." Royal; U. S. Bike Tires / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

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

And with the costume I got for us, Jerry, we should be a cinch for first prize

Genre

humor

Reprints

• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #252 (September 1958)

Superman's Secret Message (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

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

Dead Man's Gold! (Table of Contents: 9)

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

Script

?

Pencils

Ed Smalle (signed as E. J. S.)

Inks

Ed Smalle (signed as E. J. S.)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Gold plus greed reach across the centuries...

Genre

adventure; drama; jungle

Characters

Congo Bill; Sir Abel Trent; Captain Cave

Synopsis

Off the coast of the Caicos Islands, Bill works to recover a shipment of gold lost over 250 years earlier.

Keywords

Caicos Islands; deep sea diving; gold; Golden Hawk (ship); treasure chests; United States Coast Guard

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

Columbia / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

Jasper / comic story / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

Lit-Win

Pencils

Lit-Win

Inks

Lit-Win

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

If I don't reduce a little...

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #114 (August 1946)

Editorial Advisory Board (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

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

Any Gum, Chum? (Table of Contents: 13)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Raymond Perry

Inks

Raymond Perry

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

non-fiction

Synopsis

How chewing gum and bubble gum are made.

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

Shorty / comic story / 0.75 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

Golly, it's muddy out after the rain!

Genre

humor

Reprints

• in A Date with Judy (DC, 1947 series) #58 (April-May 1957)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

Nestlé's Crunch / advertisement / 0.25 page (report information)

Home, Sweet Home! (Table of Contents: 16)

Leave It to Binky / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script

Jack Schiff

Pencils

Sheldon Mayer

Inks

Sheldon Mayer ?

Colors

?

Letters

Ira Schnapp

Genre

advocacy; teen

Characters

Binky Biggs; Lucy Biggs; Li'l Allergy; Mr. Biggs; Mrs. Biggs

Synopsis

Everyone in Binky's family learns a lesson about being more thoughtful and accommodating to one another.

Indexer Notes

Published in cooperation with leading national social welfare and youth-serving organizations.

Art credits from Bob Hughes, Gene Reed, Merlin Haas, Edgar Loftin, and Allen Ross. Loftin and Ross question Mayer inks credit. Bob Bailey argues Bob Oksner base with Mayer heads.

Two Dead Men! (Table of Contents: 17)

Vigilante / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script

Gardner Fox

Pencils

Dan Barry (signed)

Inks

Dan Barry (signed)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The legends of the West's lost mines are many...

Genre

adventure; superhero; western-frontier

Characters

Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Jim Poland; Zeb Lee; Dolores Mariposa; Don Mariposa; Slick Adams

Synopsis

Vigilante is asked to try and find the lost gold mine discovered by Jim Poland and Zeb Lee in 1870. After much futile searching he spies a wall hanging in the home of Don Mariposa, which supposedly shows the exact location.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 18)

Little Pete / 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

Boy - look at all these snowballs!

Genre

humor; children

Reprints

• in Sugar & Spike (DC, 1956 series) #4 (October-November 1956)
• in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #294 (March 1962)

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

Bazooka / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[Pierre St. Amand; Barbara Bittner; Jack Roush; Mary Chase] (Table of Contents: 20)

Handy Andys / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Stookie Allen

Pencils

Stookie Allen

Inks

Stookie Allen

Colors

?

Letters

Stookie Allen

Genre

non-fiction

Characters

Pierre St. Amand; Barbara Bittner; Jack Roush; Mary Chase

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

Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

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

Thom McAn / advertisement / 1 page (report information)