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Action Comics #245 (1958) · The Collector

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Action Comics (1938)
#245

DC Comics#245

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Action Comics #245

The Shrinking Superman! / The Interplanetary Scarecrow / The Secret of the Super Animals

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: October 1958
On sale: Aug 28, 1958
Cover price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Credits

Writers: Otto Binder, Henry Boltinoff, Jack Miller
Pencillers: Wayne Boring, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Howard Sherman
Inkers: Stan Kaye, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Howard Sherman
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Grand Comics Database issue 14652

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Lois accidentally releases from Kandor the criminal Zak-Kul, who traps Superman in Kandor and takes over his life. Lois marries Zak-Kul thinking him Kal-El, but he tries to kill Lois because she keeps asking him Kal-El's secret id. Kal-El, trapped inside the "Krypton City," uses one of the three remaining specks of Illium-349 to shrink himself even smaller and slip between the atoms of Krypton City's jar, then uses the second speck to enlarge both himself and the third speck. Zak-Kul meanwhile futilely attempts to hide from Superman by disguising himself as a mild-mannered reporter.

Henry Boltinoff

Covers

Curt Swan, Stan Kaye

Editor

Whitney Ellsworth

Assistant editors

Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan

Managing editor

Jack Schiff

Characters

clerk
Congo Bill
Janu the Jungle Boy
Justice of the Peace
Lois Lane
pedestrians
policemen
Professor Peters
Superman
Tommy Tomorrow
Zak-Kul

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