Unofficial Action Comics Index

ACTION COMICS #248

Cover Date: January 1959
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1958-11-26

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Man No Prison Could Hold!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen

Villain(s):

Von Kamp (first appearance; a fugitive Nazi scientist; using slave labor to construct a spy satellite)

Location(s):

Metropolis

An unnamed island in the Ocean

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents Superman #1 (September 2005)

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Second Story: "The Amazing Congorilla!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Robert Bernstein
Art	Howard Sherman
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congorilla (Congo Bill; receives a ring that allows him to transfer his consciousness to a large Golden Gorilla)

Villain(s):

Reiger (first appearance; a movie director; tries to capture Congorilla)

Other Character(s):

Chief Kawolo (first appearance; a medicine man and friend of Congo Bill; gives him the Ring of the Golden Gorilla; dies)

Location(s):

Africa

Story Reprinted in:

Weird Secret Origins (DC, 2004 series) (October 2004)

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Third Story: "The Graveyard of Space" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Otto Binder
Art	Jim Mooney
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow

Supporting Character(s):

Brent Wood

Other Character(s):

Lor-Li (first appearance; Guardian of the Trap; from the planet Xor-3; inhabitants shown to be giants)

Location(s):

Spiral Nebula (first appearance)

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