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Action Comics 144

ACTION COMICS #144

Cover Date: May 1950
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1950-03-13

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Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino
Colors: Jack Adler


Story: "Clark Kent's Career!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryAl Schwartz
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (also in flashbacks between panels of Action Comics #1)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane
Perry White (also in flashbacks between panels of Action Comics #1)

Villain(s):

Mob syndicate (first appearance for all; in flashback only)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet

Comment(s):

These are Earth-Two characters.


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Second Story: "The Poison Planet!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Fischetti
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Colonel Tommy Tomorrow

Supporting Character(s):

Brent Wood

Location(s):

Earth in an alternate future of 1990
New York City
Arkan (first appearance; a small inhabited planetoid)


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Third Story: "Dead Man's Gold!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtEd Smalle
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill

Villain(s):

Sir Abel Trent (first appearance; hires a ship's captain to delay their recovering gold)
Captain Cave (first appearance; ship's captain who ruins recovery efforts to retrieve gold)

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean


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Fourth Story: "The Quest for the Two Dead Men!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtDan Barry
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante

Villain(s):

Slick Adams (first appearance; tries to steal a mine strike away from the Vigilante)

Location(s):

American Southwest


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