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Action Comics 258

ACTION COMICS #258

Cover Date: November 1959
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1959-09-29

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Menace of the Cosmic Man!" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #13/3; next in the third story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #13/3; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #41/3)
Perry White (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #13/3; next in World's Finest Comics #105)

Villain(s):

General Malvio (first appearance; a rebel officer)
Malvio's rebel soldiers (first appearance of all)
Cosmic Man (first appearance; a robot posing as a super-hero, created by Malvio to assassinate President Raulis)

Other Character(s):

President Raulis of Borkia (first appearance)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet
Borkia (first appearance, a small European nation)

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents Superman #2 (2006)


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Second Story: "Congorilla Goes to War!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
ArtHoward Sherman
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Congorilla

Supporting Character(s):

Janu the Jungle Boy

Villain(s):

a group of raiders (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Colonel Duval (first appearance; an addled former commander of a French Foreign Legion outpost, believes his animals are his army)
native villagers

Location(s):

an unspecified location in Africa


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Third Story: "Supergirl's Farewell to Earth!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtJim Mooney
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl

Guest Star(s):

Krypto (in between Superman Vol. 1 #130 and #134)
Superman (last in the first story this issue; next in Adventure Comics #266/3)

Other Character(s):

the orphanage headmaster
kids from the orphanage
reporters

Location(s):

Midvale
Midvale Orphanage
an asteroid

Comment(s):

Supergirl learns Superman's secret identity of Clark Kent.

Story Reprinted in:

Action Comics #373 (March 1969)
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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