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Issue: Action Comics #238
Publication Date: March 1958
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Issues: #238 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: Superman DC National ComicsView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/30/1958
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): King Krypton
First Line: Take this, Superman!
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In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told #[nn] published May 1992
as Foreword - Joe Kubert [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]cover illustration
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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The Super-Gorilla from Krypton

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): King Krypton
First Line: Our spears have no effect on devil beast!
Synopsis: Jimmy summons Superman to Africa with his signal-watch when he encounters a gorilla with super-powers. Superman deduces that the giant ape is from Krypton, and later it sacrifices itself to save Superman from Green Kryptonite, revealing that it was really a Kryptonian human accidentally transformed into a gorilla.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman Annual #7 published January 1963
as The Super-Gorilla from Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuper-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas #1 published January 1976
as The Super-Gorilla from Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 12
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DC Presents Lois Lane

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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: house ad for Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #1, on sale January 14
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[untitled]

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Credits
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: Yes sir, you must lead a pretty rugged life!
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Pages: 0.67
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Feature(s): Supermen of America
First Line: XZUJWRFS XFDX YMFY...
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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: membership application form for the Supermen of America; also includes message in secret code (Code Saturn No. 5)
decoded message reads: "Superman says that the power to think is the mightiest power of all."
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
First Line: You stay here and answer when I shout!
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Pages: 1
Job Number: #3018
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Marooned in the Fourth Dimension

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, science fiction
Character(s): Lenoloc Ymmot Worromot (the Tommy Tomorrow of the Mirror Universe); "Genius" Jones (posing as Professor Jaxon); The Space Looter; Electric-Man from Neptune; Space Alcatraz warden
First Line: Kool tuo!
Synopsis: Tommy Tomorrow checks out Prof. Jaxon's dimension cabinet, a gateway to the 4th dimension. Since Tommy suspects the cabinet is a hoax, he volunteers to test the device and is sent to the 4th dimension. But Tommy doesn't realize that he has fallen for the real plot of the professor, who actually wanted to get rid of him. When Tommy realizes that things happen a day later in the 4th dimension, Tommy takes the place of that world's Tommy Tomorrow in testing that world's dimension cabinet and returns to arrest the professor and his accomplice.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told #[nn] published January 1990
as Marooned in the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told #[nn] published May 1992
as Marooned in the Fourth Dimension [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Chuckle Box
First Line: So this is your uncle's funeral?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: page of jokes
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Genres: humorous
First Line: Golly! I caught you red-handed!
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Do You Know What's Behind a Law?

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Subject Matter
Genres: informational, opinion
Synopsis: Jerry learns the importance of driver's education.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
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The Tenderfoot Hunter

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Genres: adventure, drama, jungle
Character(s): Casper Quirt
First Line: Good grief - - How does Casper Quirt expect to stop a Cape buffalo charge with that spinning propellor for a weapon?!
Synopsis: Congo Bill must deal with a man on his safari who learned everything he knows about the jungle from a correspondence course.
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Pages: 6
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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