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Action Comics 255

ACTION COMICS #255

Cover Date: August 1959
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1959-06-30

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Bride of Bizarro!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (next in World's Finest Comics #103)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #39/2)

Villain(s):

Bizarro (next in issue #263)
an imperfect duplicate of Bizarro (destroyed)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis
Bizarro-Lois (first appearance; next in issue #263)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet
an unidentified island

Comment(s):

Story continued from the previous issue.

Story Reprinted in:

80 Page Giant Magazine #6 (January 1965)
Superman in the Fifties ([September] 2002)
Showcase Presents Superman #1 ([September] 2005)


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Second Story: "The Abominable Snowman!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtHoward Sherman
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congorilla

Villain(s):

a group of bandits (first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Sir John (first appearance; hires Congo Bill to guide a mountain search for the Abominable Snowman)
other explorers (first appearance of all)
the Abominable Snowman

Location(s):

Bukari Mountains, Africa


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Third Story: "Supergirl Visits the 21st Century!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJim Mooney
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (in between issues #254/3 and #256/3)

Guest Star(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (earliest chronological appearance, as a child; next in Showcase #41)

Villain(s):

a monstrous creature (in the 21st Century)

Other Character(s):

kids at the Midvale Orphanage
Horatio Tomorrow
Mrs. Tomorrow
Jik (a Martian boy)
other orphans in the 21st Century
the orphanage headmaster in the 21st Century

Location(s):

Earth
United States of America
Midvale
Midvale Orphanage
an orphanage in the 21st Century

Comment(s):

Supergirl goes on her first travels through the timestream.

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Family #179/3 (October 1976)
Supergirl Archives #1 (2001)
Showcase Presents: Supergirl #1 ([November] 2007)
Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ([June] 2016)
Supergirl: The Silver Age Vol. 1 (2017)


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