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Action Comics #224 (1957) · The Collector

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Action Comics (1938)
#224

DC Comics#224

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Action Comics #224

The Secret of Superman Island! / The Golden Gorilla / Seven Disappearing Wonders of Space!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: January 1957
On sale: Nov 27, 1956
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

1st appearance of The Golden Gorilla

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Credits

Writers: Edmond Hamilton, Jack Miller, Henry Boltinoff, Otto Binder
Pencillers: Wayne Boring, Howard Sherman, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney
Inkers: Stan Kaye, Howard Sherman, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney

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Grand Comics Database issue 13268

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Inexplicably, Superman creates a new island shaped in the form of himself. Despite Superman's warning to all approaching ships, Lois contrives to land there by row boat and finds all manner of strange machinery and equipment. She and a gang of crooks discover a vault containing vast quantities of green Kryptonite, and subsequently find that Professor Vanley had thought the mineral might be a universal power source.

Letterer

Henry Boltinoff

Cover

Al Plastino

Cover colors

Jack Adler

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Assistant editors

Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan

Managing editor

Jack Schiff

Characters

The Golden Gorilla· 1st appearance
Clark Kent
Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
Congo Bill
Janu
Little Pete
Lois Lane
Perry White
Shorty
Superman

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