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ACTION COMICS #177

Cover Date: February 1953
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1952-12-24

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Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino
Colors: Jack Adler


Story: "Anti-Superman Weapon" (12 Pages)
Superman

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton (?)
PencilsCurt Swan
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #62; next in issue #178)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in World's Finest Comics #62; next in issue #178)
Perry White (in between Superman Vol. 1 #81/2 and #82)

Villain(s):

The "General" (first appearance; former Nazi scientist; using war weapons plans to commit crimes)
his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis
U.S. Army (assisting in the protection of Metropolis)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet


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Second Story: "I Rode with the Outlaw Cameleers" (6 Pages)
Congo Bill

Credits:

StoryJack Miller
ArtEd Smalle
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (in between issues #176/2 and #178/3)

Villain(s):

Culgara Cameleers (first appearance for all; Culgara named)

Other Character(s):

Captain Niapu of the Egyptian Desert Police (first appearance)
Miss Calhoun (first appearance; secretary for the World-Wide Insurance Company)
'two unidentified World-Wide Insurance Company staffers

Location(s):

Egypt
Aswan
Libya
United Kingdom
London, England
World-Wide Insurance Company


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Third Story: "The Children from Space" (6 Pages)
Tommy Tomorrow

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton (?)
ArtJim Mooney
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #176/3 and #178/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Brent Wood (in between issues #176/3 and #178/3)

Other Character(s):

a group of children found on a space lifeboat (first appearance for all; from the planet Zura)
their parents (first appearance for all; from the planet Zura)

Location(s):

Mars
Jupiter (mentioned)
Zura (first mentioned)


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Fourth Story: "Five Bandannas for Vigilante" (8 Pages)
Vigilante

Credits:

StoryDick Wood (?)
PencilsBob Brown
InksRuss Heath (?)
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (in between issues #176/4 and #178/4; also in multiple flashbacks)

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff (in between issues #176/4 and #178/4)

Villain(s):

a unidentified criminal (in flashback)
a gang of criminals in an unidentified city (in flashback)
Black Diamond Gang (first appearance for all; Big Ben Dyke named)
The Bradley Brothers (first appearance for all; in flashback; Tom named)
Deep River Bandits (first appearance for all; in flashback)

Location(s):

United States of America
an unidentified city (in flashback)
Montana (in flashback to last spring)
Moonhead Mining Camp (first appearance; in flashback; location unidentified)
Santa Fe, NM
unidentified location in the southwest (in flashback)


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