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Action Comics #212 (1956) · The Collector

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Action Comics (1938)
#212

DC Comics#212

Action Comics

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Action Comics #212

The Superman Calendar / The Man Who Hated Tigers / The Paul Revere of Space

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: January 1956
On sale: Nov 27, 1955
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writers: Henry Boltinoff, Otto Binder
Pencillers: Al Plastino, Ed Smalle, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney
Inkers: Al Plastino, Ed Smalle, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney
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Grand Comics Database issue 12565

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Devious Thorne Varden claims to be a calendar publisher, and offers to donate all profits from a Superman calendar to the Planet charity fund. He asks Superman to pose for a dozen shots performing feats which he has sketched, one of which, Varden tells his henchmen, is impossible. If Superman fails to deliver the shots, Varden keeps the profits for himself. The November shot shows Superman going home for Thanksgiving, but to do so would expose his secret identity. Instead of returning to the Kent home in Kansas he takes the photographer into space, where the planet Krypton had previously been.

Henry Boltinoff

Cover

Al Plastino

Cover colors

Jack Adler

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Cover letters

Ira Schnapp

Others

Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan

Characters

Captain Brent Wood
Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
Congo Bill
Janu the Jungle Boy
Lois Lane
Nagu
Perry White
Roland Cranshaw
Superman
Thorne Varden
Zorr, the Space Pirate

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