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ACTION COMICS #227
Cover Date: April 1957
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1957-02-26
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye
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Credits:
| Story | Edmond Hamilton |
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Assistant editing | George Kashdan, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #20/3; next in Superman Vol. 1 #113)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #20/3; next in issue #228)
- Perry White (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #20/3; next in issue #228)
Villain(s):
- various criminal gangs
Other Character(s):
- a team of scientists
- Mayor Manning (last in Superman Vol. 1 #110; next in ???)
- other citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Metropolis
- somewhere near the Arctic
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
- an unidentified dead planet (first appearance)
Credits:
| Story | Jack Miller |
| Art | Howard Sherman |
| Assistant editing | George Kashdan, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Congo Bill (in between issues #226/2 and #228/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Janu the Jungle Boy (in between issues #226/2 and #228/2)
Villain(s):
- Weems (first appearance; bets on the exact number for the census, killing animals that wander into the preserve to keep the number the same)
- his unidentified accomplice
Other Character(s):
- Mr. Hadley (first appearance; an animal census taker)
- other game preserve staff
Location(s):
- a big game preserve in Africa
Credits:
| Story | Otto Binder |
| Art | Jim Mooney |
| Assistant editing | George Kashdan, Mort Weisinger |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #226/3 and #228/3)
Other Character(s):
- Jerry Hale (first appearance; also in flashback; poses a Planeteer recruit to fulfill they dying wish of her father)
- Planeteer commandant (in between issues #225/3 and #229/3)
- Captain Hale (first appearance; in flashback; Jerry Hale's late father)
- Edward (first appearance; a Planeteer recruit)
Location(s):
- Earth
- Planeteer Headquarters
- various locations in space