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ACTION COMICS #55

Cover Date: December 1942
Cover Price: $.15
Publication Date: 1942-10-13

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Burnley

Story: "A Goof Named Tiny Rufe!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	Ed Dobrotka
Assistant editing	Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Perry White

Lois Lane

Other Character(s):

Al Hatt (first appearance; creator of Slapstick Sam comic strip; then begins Tiny Rufe then a Superman strip)

Tiny Rufe (first appearance; a hillbilly)

Maisie Day (first appearance; his hillbilly sweetheart)

Location(s):

Metropolis

Comment(s):

Dobrotka and Sikela credited as Joe Shuster.

The characters in this story are the Earth-Two versions.

Story Reprinted in:

Superman: The Action Comics Archives #4 (2005)

The Superman Chronicles #10 (2012)

Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #3 (2016)

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Second Story: "Bullets for Breakfast!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Mort Meskin
Lettering	George Roussos
Assistant editing	Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff

Villain(s):

Rant Crollax and his gang (first appearance for all; a crooked restaurant owner who tries to drive another restaurant out of business)

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Third Story: "Aces of Fire!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Gardner Fox
Art	Louis Cazenueve
Assistant editing	Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Three Aces:

Fog Fortune

Gunner Bill

Whistler Will

Villain(s):

A Nazi saboteur (first appearance)

Location(s):

England

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Fourth Story: "Escape from the Scaffold!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Joseph Greene
Art	Bernard Baily
Assistant editing	Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Americommando (as Captain Otto Riker; last in flashback in Young All-Stars #27)

Villain(s):

Nazis soldiers

Location(s):

Berlin, Germany

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Fifth Story: "A Modern Robinson Crusoe!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Pencils	Ed Smalle
Assistant editing	Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill

Villain(s):

Six Fingers Corcoran (first appearance; a criminal that tries to hide out on a nearly deserted island)

Location(s):

An unnamed island off the coast of Africa

Comment(s):

This story takes place during baseball season.

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Sixth Story: "Crimes by Coincidence" (9 Pages)

Credits:

Art	Joseph Sulman
Assistant editing	Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Zatara

Villain(s):

Al Torponi and his gang (first appearance for all; a gangster)

Location(s):

Gotham City

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