Actions
 Unofficial Action Comics Index

Action Comics 220

ACTION COMICS #220

Cover Date: September 1956
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1956-07-24

< PREV
TITLE INDEX
NEXT >

Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino


Story: "The Interplanetary Olympics" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton (?)
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #15/3; next in World's Finest Comics #84)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #15/2; next in World's Finest Comics #84)

Villain(s):

Bronno of Kor (first appearance; a competitor in the Interplanetary Olympics; revealed to be a robot; destroyed)
Bronno's two unidentified operators (first appearance of both)

Other Character(s):

Sharn of Iwo (first appearance; a competitor in the Interplanetary Olympics; after Bronno's disqualification is pronounced the winner)
Varal (first appearance; a scientist on Thon)
other competitors and spectators in the Interplanetary Olympics (first appearance of all)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Iwo (first mentioned)
Kor (first mentioned)
Thon (first appearance)


2

Second Story: "Congo Bill, Stone Age Man" (6 Pages)

Credits:

Story?
ArtHoward Sherman
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (in between issues #219/2 and #221/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Janu the Jungle Boy (in between issues #219/2 and #221/2)
Chota the Chimp (last/next in ???)

Villain(s):

various dinosaurs

Other Character(s):

"cave men" (first appearance of all; inhabitants of an underground "lost world")

Location(s):

somewhere in Africa
an underground "lost world"


3


Third Story: "The Flying Dutchman of Space" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJim Mooney
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #219/3 and #221/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Brent Wood (in between issues #219/3 and #221/3)

Villain(s):

Nebula Norton (first appearance; a notorious criminal)

Other Character(s):

Cedric Hall (first appearance; "The Flying Dutchman of Space;" also in flashback)

Location(s):

Earth (presumed; in flashback)
the Forbidden Asteroids


4