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Action Comics 54

ACTION COMICS #54

Cover Date: November 1941
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1942-09-15

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Burnley


Story: "The Pirate of Pleasure Island" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJoe Sikela
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Kent's Editor
Lois Lane
Jimmy Olsen

Villain(s):

Captain Ironfist (Stanley Finchcomb; first appearance; possibly possessed by his ancestor, a famous pirate; dies)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Pleasure Island (first appearance; an amusement park on the coast near Metropolis)


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Second Story: "The Rookie Who Fought A Ghost" (12 Pages)

Credits:

PencilsMort Meskin
InksGeorge Roussos
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (last in Young All-Stars Annual #1)

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff

Villain(s):

Killer Bragg and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Officer Dan Carmondy (first appearance; a policeman trying to live up to his heroic father's legend)


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Third Story: "Fire Over The Yunnanfu Road" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtLouis Cazeneuve
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Three Aces:
Fog Fortune
Gunner Bill
Whistler Will

Villain(s):

Japanese Army and Air Force

Location(s):

Yunnan Provence, China


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Fourth Story: "Destination, Berlin" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoseph Greene
ArtBernard Baily
LetteringBernard Baily
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Mister America (becomes an agent of the US Army; takes the code name Americommando and the identity of Otto Riker, an member of the Nazi SS; also appears in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3 and Young All-Stars #27 during this story)

Supporting Character(s):

Fatman (also appears in Young All-Stars #27 and behind the scenes in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3; last appearance)

Other Character(s):

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (in shadows)

Comment(s):

This story is retold with new details in Secret Origins Vol. 2 #29/3 and Young All-Stars #27.
This story takes place in mid-June 1942.


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Fifth Story: "Idol of Doom!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryWhitney Ellsworth
ArtEd Smalle
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill

Supporting Character(s):

Professor James Kent

Villain(s):

Martin Farrell (first appearance; an explorer who poses as Mafar, the Wolf God's priest to steal their gold)

Other Character(s):

Dr. Willis Pemberton (first appearance; an archaeologist)

Location(s):

Central America


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Sixth Story: "Recipe for Robbery" (9 Pages)

Credits:

ArtJoseph Sulman
Assistant editingMurray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Zatara the Magician

Villain(s):

Chef and his gang (first appearance; uses special dishes to cover for his crimes)

Location(s):

Gotham City


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