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ACTION COMICS #54
Cover Date: November 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-09-15
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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Burnley
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Credits:
| Story | Jerry Siegel |
| Art | Joe Sikela |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Captain Ironfist (Stanley Finchcomb; first appearance; possibly possessed by his ancestor, a famous pirate; dies)
Location(s):
- Metropolis
- Pleasure Island (first appearance; an amusement park on the coast near Metropolis)
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The Action Comics Archives #4 (2005)
- The Superman Chronicles #10 (2012)
- Superman: Golden Age Omnibus #3 (2016)
Credits:
| Pencils | Mort Meskin |
| Inks | George Roussos |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Vigilante (last in Young All-Stars Annual #1)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Killer Bragg and his gang (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Officer Dan Carmondy (first appearance; a policeman trying to live up to his heroic father's legend)
Credits:
| Story | Gardner Fox |
| Art | Louis Cazeneuve |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Japanese Army and Air Force
Location(s):
- Yunnan Provence, China
Credits:
| Story | Joseph Greene |
| Art | Bernard Baily |
| Lettering | Bernard Baily |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Mister America (becomes an agent of the US Army; takes the code name Americommando and the identity of Otto Riker, an member of the Nazi SS; also appears in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3 and Young All-Stars #27 during this story)
Supporting Character(s):
- Fatman (also appears in Young All-Stars #27 and behind the scenes in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3; last appearance)
Other Character(s):
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (in shadows)
Comment(s):
- This story is retold with new details in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3 and Young All-Stars #27.
- This story takes place in mid-June 1942.
Credits:
| Story | Whitney Ellsworth |
| Art | Ed Smalle |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Professor James Kent
Villain(s):
- Martin Farrell (first appearance; an explorer who poses as Mafar, the Wolf God's priest to steal their gold)
Other Character(s):
- Dr. Willis Pemberton (first appearance; an archaeologist)
Location(s):
- Central America
Credits:
| Art | Joseph Sulman |
| Assistant editing | Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Chef and his gang (first appearance; uses special dishes to cover for his crimes)
Location(s):