Action Comics #238
DC Comics
United States
- Published
- March 1958
- Page count
- 36
- Cover price
- 0.10 USD
- Colour
- Colour
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Glossy colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- GCD
- www.comics.org/issue/14266
Credits
- Editing
- ?
Issue contents
Cover
King Krypton, the Super-Gorilla!
Cover, 1 page
Featuring
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Superman; King Krypton
Credits
- Colours
- ?
Notes
Credit for cover letterer from Brian Lamken via the Error Tracker.
1Featuring
- Feature
- Jowett Institute of Physical Training
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
Inside front cover.
2Featuring
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Superman; King Krypton; Jimmy Olsen
Credits
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Reprint history
- Also printed
-
Superman's Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #1 ([September 1958]) — The Super-Gorilla From Krypton
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Superman's Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #1 ([September 1958])
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Superman's Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #1 ([September 1958])
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Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #7 (Summer 1963) — The Super-Gorilla from Krypton
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Giant Superman Album (Colour Comics, 1961 series) #4 ([September 1964?]) — The Super-Gorilla from Krypton
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Giant Superman Album (Colour Comics, 1961 series) #4 ([September 1964?])
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Super-Heroes Battle Super Gorillas (DC, 1976 series) #1 (Winter 1976)
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Giant Superman Album (Murray, 1978 series) #32 ([March 1978?]) — The Super-Gorilla from Krypton
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Giant Superman Album (Murray, 1978 series) #32 ([March 1978?])
- This version
- Super-Heroes Battle Super-Gorillas 1, Winter 1976
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.
3Featuring
- Feature
- Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane
- Genre
- Superhero
- Characters
- Lois Lane; Superman
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Colours
- ?
Notes
house ad for Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #1, on sale January 14
4"Yes sir, you must lead a pretty rugged life!"
Featuring
- Genre
- Humor
- Characters
- Chief Hot Foot
Credits
- Colours
- ?
5"XZUJWRFS XFDX YMFY..."
Featuring
- Feature
- Supermen of America
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
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."
6"You stay here and answer when I shout!"
Featuring
- Genre
- Humor
- Code
- #3018
- Characters
- Ollie
Credits
- Colours
- ?
7Featuring
- Genre
- Science fiction
- Characters
- Tommy Tomorrow; Prof. Jaxon ["Genius" Jones]; Space Looter
Credits
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
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.
Notes
reprint information from Arthur Lortie
8"So this is your uncle's funeral?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Chuckle Box
- Genre
- Humor
Credits
- Author
- ?
- Art
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colours
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
page of jokes
9"Golly! I caught you red-handed!"
Featuring
- Genre
- Humor
- Characters
- Casey the Cop
Credits
- Colours
- ?
10Featuring
- Genre
- Advocacy
Credits
- Art
- Bob Brown
- Colours
- ?
Synopsis
Jerry learns the importance of driver's education.
Notes
published in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly
11Featuring
- Feature
- Congo Bill
- Genre
- Jungle
- Characters
- Congo Bill; Janu; Caspar Quirt
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- Howard Sherman
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Synopsis
Congo Bill must deal with a man on his safari who learned everything he knows about the jungle from a correspondence course.
12Featuring
- Feature
- American Seed Co.
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
13Featuring
- Feature
- Littleton Stamp Co.
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
14Featuring
- Feature
- Stephens Credit Sales
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Letters
- ?
Notes
Inside back cover.
15Featuring
- Feature
- Junior Sales Club of America
Credits
- Script
- ?
- Art
- ?
- Colours
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
Notes
Back cover.
Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Indicia
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