Unofficial Action Comics Index

ACTION COMICS #153

Cover Date: February 1951
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1950-12-13

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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer
Colors: Jack Adler

Story: "The 100 Deaths of Clark Kent!" (12 Pages) Superman

Credits:

Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman Vol. 1 #68/3; next in World's Finest Comics #50)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman Vol. 1 #68/2; next in issue #154)

Perry White (last in Superman Vol. 1 #68/3; next in World's Finest Comics #50)

Location(s):

United States of America

Metropolis

Daily Planet

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Second Story: "Castaway World!" (8 Pages) Tommy Tomorrow

Credits:

Story	Edmond Hamilton (?)
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	John Fischetti
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #152/2 and #154/2)

Location(s):

Earth

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Third Story: "Diamond Doom" (6 Pages) Congo Bill

Credits:

Art	Ed Smalle
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (in between issues #152/3 and #154/3)

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Fourth Story: "The Three Dead Letters" (10 Pages) Vigilante

Credits:

Creators: saw no args

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (in between issues #152/4 and #154/4)

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff (in between issues #152/4 and #154/4)

Villain(s):

Dan Black (first appearance; also in flashback to 15 years earlier)

two gunmen (first appearance for both)

Other Character(s):

Eddie Minton (first appearance, in flashbacks to 15 years earlier; killed by Dan Black)

Doc Robert Harker (first appearance; also in flashbacks)

Sheriff George Lawton (first appearance; also in flashbacks)

Miss Prentiss (first appearance; also in flashbacks)

Mathilda (first appearance, in flashback to 15 years earlier)

Location(s):

Lucky Run (first appearance; also in flashback to 15 years earlier)

West Fork (first appearance)

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