Unofficial Action Comics Index

ACTION COMICS #198

Cover Date: November 1954
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1954-09-27

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye
Colors: Jack Adler

Story: "The Six Lives of Lois Lane" (12 Pages) Superman

Credits:

Story	Bill Woolfolk
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #2/3; next in World's Finest Comics #73)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #2/3; next in issue #199)

Lois Lane (last in Superman Vol. 1 #93/3; suffers a mental shock seeing Clark as Superman and starts to believe she is various famous women from history, such as Barbara Frietchie, Florence Nightingale, Betsy Ross, Annie Oakley, Madame Curie, and Queen Isabella of Spain; next in World's Finest Comics #73)

Perry White (last in Superman Vol. 1 #93/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #94/2)

Villain(s):

bank robbers (first appearance for all)

Wildmen of Kenma (first appearance; including the witch doctor)

Location(s):

Kenma (first appearance; a country in Africa)

United States of America

Metropolis

Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #77/3 (September-October 1967)

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Second Story: "Janu's Jungle Romance" (6 Pages) Congo Bill

Credits:

Art	Ed Smalle
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (last in Congo Bill #2/3; next in issue #199/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Janu the Jungle Boy (last in Congo Bill #2/3; next in issue #199/3)

Villain(s):

an unnamed murderer (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

John Tierney (first appearance; a man needing a guide to Libreville)

Tina Tierney (first appearance; his daughter)

Location(s):

Africa

unidentified country

French Equatorial Africa

Gabon

Libreville

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Third Story: "Stand-In for the Prairie Troubadour" (8 Pages) Vigilante

Credits:

Art	Howard Sherman
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (last in issue #197/4; next in flashback in Justice League of America #144)

Villain(s):

The Malone Gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

cast and crew of the Prairie Troubadour movie (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

United States of America

unidentified location

Magna Film Productions

Comment(s):

This is the last Vigilante feature in Action Comics.

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