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ACTION COMICS #187
Cover Date: December 1953
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1953-10-28
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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer
Colors: Jack Adler
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Credits:
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #67; next in issue #188)
Villain(s):
- Silver (first appearance; an elderly gang leader)
- Ace Larner (first appearance)
- Elf (first appearance)
- a gang of bank robbers (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Jack Miller |
| Art | Ed Smalle |
| Editing | Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan |
Feature Character(s):
- Congo Bill (in between issues #186/2 and #188/2)
Villain(s):
- Gallo Halevy (first appearance, the Black Knight; schemes to defeat Prince Harold in a joust)
- Florez (first appearance; Prime Minister of Graustadt)
Other Character(s):
- Sir Gelwyn (first appearance, in flashback to 500 years earlier; becomes first Monarch of Graustadt)
- Prince Harold (first appearance; becomes King of Graustadt)
- Citizens of Graustadt (first appearance for all)
- Sir Gelwyn (first appearance, in flashback to 500 years earlier; becomes first Monarch of Graustadt)
- Sir Arnalt (first appearance, in flashback to 500 years earlier)
Location(s):
- Graustadt (first appearance; a tiny kingdom in Southern Europe)
Credits:
| Art | Jim Mooney |
| Editing | Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan |
Feature Character(s):
- Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #186/3 and #188/3)
Supporting Character(s):
- Brent Wood (in between issues #186/3 and #188/3)
Villain(s):
- a group of alien criminals (first appearance for all; Dar Hal named)
Other Character(s):
- two unidentified Earth officials
- citizens of Earth
- police officers of an unidentified planet (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Earth
- an unidentified planet
Credits:
| Art | Bob Brown |
| Editing | Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- The Bratton Gang (first appearance for all)
- Eddie Meegan (first appearance; a member of the gang but btrays Bratton; ordered to kill Vigilante; possibly dies)
- Ben Whitaker (first appearance; accomplice of Meegan's)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Buckboard Gulch (first appearance for all)
Location(s):
- Buckboard Gulch (first appearance)