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Action Comics 127

ACTION COMICS #127

Cover Date: December 1948
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1948-10-13

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Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino


Story: "Superman Takes The Consequences!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Plastino
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (appears on the radio show Truth or Consequences)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane

Other Character(s):

Ralph Edwards (first appearance; real-life host of the radio show Truth or Consequences)

Location(s):

Hollywood, CA
Metropolis
Mount Waialeale, Hawai'i Territory


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Second Story: "The Man Who Laughed at Scotland Yard!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtEd Smalle
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congorilla

Villain(s):

Truthful Smith (first appearance; a diamond thief)

Other Character(s):

Cathy Hall (first appearance; an employee of World-Wide Insurance)

Location(s):

Aukland, New Zealand
Friendly Islands


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Third Story: "The Interplanetary Aquarium" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Fischetti
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (first actual appearance; see Comments; graduates from Space Port and is commissioned as a Colonel in the Planeteers; awarded the Planeteer Medal for his work in a marine sample mission)

Other Character(s):

Joan Gordy (first appearance; a reporter for Planetary Radio News)
Planeteers

Location(s):

Earth
Gotham (first appearance; capital of the planet Earth and headquarters of the government of the Nine Planets)
Venus
Ganymede
Titan

Comment(s):

The story is set in 1988.

Story Reprinted in:

3-D Batman (December 1953


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Fourth Story: "Magic Music!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJoe Curt Swan
InksJohn Fischetti
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Zatara (last in World's Finest Comics #37/4)


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Fifth Story: "El Boledoro!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJoe Kubert
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff

Villain(s):

El Boledoro (first appearance; Señor Ramirez; uses a padded suit and stilts to appear taller)

Location(s):

Argentina


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