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Action Comics 58

ACTION COMICS #58

Cover Date: March 1943
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1943-01-12

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Cover Credits:
Art: Jack Burnley


Story: "The Face of Adonis!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtGeorge Roussos
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Superman

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane

Villain(s):

Adonis (first appearance; James Trevor; a fading film star who undergoes plastic surgery and ends up with a pliable face; dies)
Doctor Menace and his gang (first appearance for all; a plastic surgeon who directs Adonis on his crimes; dies)

Location(s):

Hollywood, CA

Story Reprinted in:

Superman: The Action Comics Archives #4 (2005)
Superman: Golden Age Omnibus #3 (2016)


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Second Story: "The Dummy and the Dumbbell" (12 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDon Cameron
PencilsMort Meskin
InksCharles Paris
LetteringCharles Paris
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff

Villain(s):

Dummy (last in All-Star Squadron #54; next in issue #63/2)
Dumbbell (Bobo; first appearance; a large criminal who aides The Dummy; goes straight and returns to jail)


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Third Story: "Double-X for the Axis" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtLouis Cazeneuve
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Three Aces
Whistler Will (captured by the Nazis)
Gunner Bill
Fog Fortune (captured by the Nazis)

Villain(s):

Nazis

Other Character(s):

Norwegian freedom fighters (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Kristiansund, Norway
North Atlantic Ocean (on the USS Roosevelt)


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Fourth Story: "The Brigade of the Biting Rabbit!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJoseph Greene
ArtBernard Baily
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Americommando

Villain(s):

Doctor Ito
Nazis

Other Character(s):

French freedom fighters

Location(s):

Occupied France


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Fifth Story: "The Full-Dress Rebellion!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

ArtEd Smalle
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill

Villain(s):

Nazis (first appearance for all)
Ojubis (first appearance for all; an outlaw tribe that loves flashy clothes)

Location(s):

Africa


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Sixth Story: "The Seven Year Itch!" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryGardner Fox
ArtJoseph Sulman
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Zatara the Magician

Villain(s):

Willie Walker and his gang (first appearance for all; uses itching powder to rob banks)


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