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Action Comics 146

ACTION COMICS #146

Cover Date: July 1950
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1950-05-10

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Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino


Story: "The Statues That Came to Life!" (12 Pages)
Superman

Credits:

StoryDorothy Woolfolk
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #46; next in Superman Vol. 1 #65)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in World's Finest Comics #46; next in Superman Vol. 1 #65)
Perry White (last in World's Finest Comics #46; next in Superman Vol. 1 #65)

Villain(s):

Luthor (in between issues #141 and #151)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet
New York City, NY


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Second Story: "The Impossible Worlds" (8 Pages)
Tommy Tomorrow

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Fischetti
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #145/2 and #147/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Brent Wood (in between issues #145/2 and #147/2)

Villain(s):

Blade Harker (first appearance; an interplanetary promoter)

Other Character(s):

settlers on Mercury (first appearance; relocate to other worlds)

Location(s):

Mercury
Earth
Planeteer Headquarters
Two "Impossible Worlds" (of five total, believed uninhabitable; first appearance for both)
Haunted World (first appearance)
Lightning World (first appearance)
Rainbow World (first appearance)


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Third Story: "Seven Years Missing!" (6 Pages)
Congo Bill

Credits:

ArtEd Smalle
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (in between issues #145/3 and #147/3)

Supporting Character(s):

"Bad News" Hale

Villain(s):

Thomas Kennedy (first appearance; fakes his death and hides out in the French Foreign Legion)

Location(s):

London, England
Tunis, Tunisia


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Fourth Story: "The Galleon in the Desert!" (10 Pages)
Vigilante

Credits:

StoryJoe Samachson
ArtDan Barry
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (in between issues #145/4 and #147/4)

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff (last/next in ???)

Villain(s):

Fiddler (last in issue #91/3)
the Fiddler's gang
Dictionary (in between issues #115/5 and #156/4)
Shakes, the Underworld Poet (in between issues #71/2 and #156/4)

Location(s):

United States of America
somewhere in the desert southwest

Story Reprinted in:

DC 100-Page Super-Spectacular #6/5 (1971)


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