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ACTION COMICS #162

Cover Date: November 1951
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1951-09-24

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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer
Colors: Jack Adler


Story: "It!" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger (?)
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
Assistant editingMort Weisinger, George Kashdan
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #54; next in Superman Vol. 1 #73/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in issue #161; next in Superman Vol. 1 #73)
Perry White (last in issue #161; next in Superman Vol. 1 #73/3)

Villain(s):

Location(s):

Earth
United States of America
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Superman in the Fifties (2020 [April 2021])


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Second Story: "The Interplanetary Restaurant!" (8 Pages)
Tommy Tomorrow

Credits:

PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Fischetti
Assistant editingMort Weisinger, George Kashdan
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Tommy Tomorrow (in between issues #161/2 and #163/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Planeteers

Villain(s):

Eben Kinnel (first appearance; an Earth businessman wanting to buy the Interplanetary Restaurant)
Kinnel's henchmen (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Wally Martin (first appearance; a ship's cook, retires from the Planeteers to open his own restaurant)
Space-Truckers

Location(s):

Earth
Planeteer Headquarters
Mars
the Interplanetary Restaurant (first appearance)
Europa


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Third Story: "Mission of Mystery!" (6 Pages)
Congo Bill

Credits:

ArtEd Smalle
Assistant editingMort Weisinger, George Kashdan
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Congo Bill (in between issues #161/3 and #163/3)

Villain(s):

Maharajah Ali Mirovna (first appearance; attempts to defraud World-Wide Insurance)
bandits' (first appearance for all; Bura and Budra named)

Other Character(s):

Jim Calvert (first appearance; company manager of World-Wide Insurance)
Citizens of Alwar

Location(s):

India
Alwar
Calcutta
Delhi


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Fourth Story: "A Horse for Vigilante!" (8 Pages)
Vigilante

Credits:

ArtBob Brown
Assistant editingMort Weisinger, George Kashdan
EditingJack Schiff

Feature Character(s):

Vigilante (in between issues #161/4 and #163/4)

Supporting Character(s):

Stuff

Villain(s):

the Ramrod gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Muskrat (first appearance; a cavalry horse)
the Sheriff of Red Dust City (first appearance)

Location(s):

Center City
Mellow Valley
Red Dust City

Comment(s):

The Vig-Cycle is destroyed, forcing Vigilante to go after outlaws while on horseback.


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