Price: 0.10 USD
Pages: 52
On-sale Date: 1950-06-12
Editing: Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Mort Weisinger (actual)
Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #147 Edit Cover
Cover Gallery 

[no title indexed]
(Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
    Genre:superhero
Characters:
Superman [Clark Kent]
Reprints (3)

Issue Data

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.

The Kind of Stories You Like Best!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 1)

Danger Trail / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Superman Becomes Miss Lovelorn!
(Table of Contents: 2)

Superman / comic story / 12 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
    Genre:superhero
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Almost every big newspaper has a romance editor...
Characters:
Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Marley (crook); "Checks" (crook); Daisy Martin; Janet Jarrows; Egbert Norden
Synopsis:
Slipping away from Lois, Clark changes into costume and repairs damage done by the Blackout Bandits. She complains to Perry, who puts Clark on the "Miss Lovelorn" lonely hearts column. After the initial shock wears off he decides to throw himself into it with a will, answering letters describing seemingly hopeless situations, then (as Superman) changing the writer's fortunes for the better.
Reprints (1)

Trouble at Ghost-Town!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 3)

"P-F" Canvas Shoes; Another Jim Wise Story / comics-form advertising / 1 page

Message to Parents
(Table of Contents: 4)

public service announcement / 0.5 page

Script:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset

Editorial Advisory Board
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 5)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page

Heroes out of the Past!
(Table of Contents: 6)

Tommy Tomorrow / comic story / 8 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
    Genre:adventure; science fiction
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:It is the year 5990, and an infamous desperado menaces the solar system.
Characters:
Colonel Tommy Tomorrow; Jirim; Lura; Daniel Boone; King Richard the Lionheart; Erik the Red; Horatius
Synopsis:
In order to combat an infamous criminal, scientist Jirim uses his time-ray to pull five heroes of the past into 5990. The Criminal accidentally destroys the time ray, and the five heroes go on a quest to find the rare elements needed to build another.

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

Star Spangled Comics; Detective Comics; Adventure Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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

Casey the Cop / comic story / 0.75 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Hello! You're new around here, aren't you?
Reprints (2)

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

Nestlé's Crunch / advertisement / 0.25 page

Doorway to Danger!
(Table of Contents: 10)

Congo Bill / comic story / 6 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Ed Smalle (signed as EJS)
Inks:
Ed Smalle (signed as EJS)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
    Genre:adventure; drama; jungle
Characters:
Congo Bill; Miss Sloan; Abar Singh; Harry Becker [Ari Bakar]; Mazie Burke Becker [Marisimba]; Mir Bela; Mister Sloan
Synopsis:
Bill, in a Persian Gulf city, recovers a set of stolen rubies with the help of a couple from Keokuk, Iowa.

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

Ton o' Fun / cartoon / 0.5 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Have you a small boy with a toy bomb-sight?
Reprints (1)

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

Bazooka Bubble Gum / advertisement / 0.5 page

Smoke-Eater
(Table of Contents: 13)

comic story / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
    Genre:non-fiction; biography

Groucho Marxes On
(Table of Contents: 14)

text article / 2 pages

Script:
?
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
typeset
    Genre:biography

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

Bebe / comic story / 2 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
    Genre:humor
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Psst, Bebe! Do you know who I am?
Reprints (1)

The Horse That Could Talk!
(Table of Contents: 16)

Vigilante / comic story / 10 pages

Script:
Pencils:
Dan Barry (signed)
Inks:
Dan Barry (signed)
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
    Genre:adventure; superhero; western-frontier
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:A dangerous killer seldom leaves a witness to testify to his evil deeds...
Characters:
Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; Stuff, the Chinatown Kid; Sage the Wonder Horse; Ted Wilson; Colonel Kip Kasen; Pete Randall
Synopsis:
Ted Wilson, star rider of a Wild West Show, is shot and killed. The owner of the show asks Greg if he could ask Vigilante, who was a good friend of Wilson, to take over. The temperamental Sage the Wonder Horse will remember Vigilante from the old days. Greg accept the job as an opportunity to investigate Wilson's death.

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

Little Pete / comic story / 0.75 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
    Genre:humor; children
  • First Line of Dialogue or Text:Pete, it's getting late. Better run upstairs and take your bath!
Reprints (3)

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

Columbia Bicycles / advertisement / 0.25 page

Job Counselor
(Table of Contents: 19)

Superboy / public service announcement / 1 page

Script:
Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
    Genre:advocacy; superhero

[no title indexed]
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 20)

The Adventures of Bob Hope / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

Rope 'Em Both, Partner!
(Expand) / (Table of Contents: 21)

Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page

Editing
Download: (JSON)
Report Information
my.comics.org
Tracked in 14 collections.
Issue at my.comics.org
View Change History
Table of Contents ToC
    Table of Contents
  1. [no title indexed]
    Superman
  2. The Kind of Stories You Like Best!
    Danger Trail
  3. Superman Becomes Miss Lovelorn!
    Superman
  4. Trouble at Ghost-Town!
    "P-F" Canvas Shoes; Another Jim Wise Story
  5. Message to Parents
  6. Editorial Advisory Board
  7. Heroes out of the Past!
    Tommy Tomorrow
  8. ["You don't have to wait 2 months..."]
    Star Spangled Comics; Detective Comics; Adventure Comics
  9. ["Hello! You're new around here, aren't you?"]
    Casey the Cop
  10. [no title indexed]
    Nestlé's Crunch
  11. Doorway to Danger!
    Congo Bill
  12. ["Have you a small boy with a toy bomb-sight?"]
    Ton o' Fun
  13. [no title indexed]
    Bazooka Bubble Gum
  14. Smoke-Eater
  15. Groucho Marxes On
  16. ["Psst, Bebe! Do you know who I am?"]
    Bebe
  17. The Horse That Could Talk!
    Vigilante
  18. ["Pete, it's getting late. Better run upstairs and take your bath!"]
    Little Pete
  19. [no title indexed]
    Columbia Bicycles
  20. Job Counselor
    Superboy
  21. [no title indexed]
    The Adventures of Bob Hope
  22. Rope 'Em Both, Partner!
    Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns
Related Links
Issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Keith Chandler
  • Frode Dreier
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Matthew Head
  • Bob Hughes
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
contact us
donate
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.