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ACTION COMICS #177
Cover Date: February 1953
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1952-12-24
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Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino
Colors: Jack Adler
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Credits:
| Story | Edmond Hamilton (?) |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #62; next in issue #178)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in World's Finest Comics #62; next in issue #178)
- Perry White (in between Superman Vol. 1 #81/2 and #82)
Villain(s):
- The "General" (first appearance; former Nazi scientist; using war weapons plans to commit crimes)
- his gang (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Metropolis
- U.S. Army (assisting in the protection of Metropolis)
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Jack Miller |
| Art | Ed Smalle |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth |
Feature Character(s):
- Congo Bill (in between issues #176/2 and #178/3)
Villain(s):
- Culgara Cameleers (first appearance for all; Culgara named)
Other Character(s):
- Captain Niapu of the Egyptian Desert Police (first appearance)
- Miss Calhoun (first appearance; secretary for the World-Wide Insurance Company)
- 'two unidentified World-Wide Insurance Company staffers
Location(s):
- Egypt
- Aswan
- Libya
- United Kingdom
- London, England
- World-Wide Insurance Company
- London, England
Credits:
| Story | Edmond Hamilton (?) |
| Art | Jim Mooney |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #176/3 and #178/3)
Supporting Character(s):
- Brent Wood (in between issues #176/3 and #178/3)
Other Character(s):
- a group of children found on a space lifeboat (first appearance for all; from the planet Zura)
- their parents (first appearance for all; from the planet Zura)
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Dick Wood (?) |
| Pencils | Bob Brown |
| Inks | Russ Heath (?) |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- a unidentified criminal (in flashback)
- a gang of criminals in an unidentified city (in flashback)
- Black Diamond Gang (first appearance for all; Big Ben Dyke named)
- The Bradley Brothers (first appearance for all; in flashback; Tom named)
- Deep River Bandits (first appearance for all; in flashback)
Location(s):
- United States of America
- an unidentified city (in flashback)
- Montana (in flashback to last spring)
- Moonhead Mining Camp (first appearance; in flashback; location unidentified)
- Santa Fe, NM
- unidentified location in the southwest (in flashback)