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Cover of Action Comics (1938) #185

Action Comics (1938) #185

DC 1938–2011 series Vol. 1 Cover date Oct 1953

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Action Comics #185 (1938) is issue #185 of DC's Action Comics (1938–2011), with a cover date of October 1953. Written by Henry Boltinoff and Jack Miller and drawn by Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Al Plastino and others.

Creators

Writers
Henry Boltinoff, Jack Miller
Pencillers
Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Al Plastino, Ed Smalle
Inkers
Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Al Plastino, Ed Smalle
Letterer
Henry Boltinoff
Cover artist
Al Plastino

The stories

“Superman's Million Dollar Photos!”

A meteor smashes through the window of the Superman photo exhibit at the Superman Hall of Trophies and destroys the vast collection of photos showing Superman in action. Isaah Pendleton offers $50 for every photo of Superman readers of the Planet send him. He then proceeds to set fire to them, al except the photo album he bought from Lois. Those 500 photos are now the only ones in existence and Pendleton auctions them to the highest bidder.

“The Hidden City!”

Bill journeys to Tibet to inform a travel writer that his uncle has died and left him a million pounds.

“The Cosmic Jigsaw Puzzle!”

Tommy hunts for the colossal weapon invented by the missing scientist Dr. Malden, but others with less altruistic motives are also after it.

“The Treasure of Get-Rich Creek!”

Lawyer Deems forces Joyce Terrill under threat of bodily harm to sign away her claim to an inherited gold mine. But The Vigilante finds small sacks of gold dust which her uncle had left buried under a tree near a river bank. As she had signed under duress the claim is still hers.

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