Action Comics #141 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1950.
Synopsis for Superman: "Luthor's Secret Weapon"
Appearing in Superman: "Luthor's Secret Weapon"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Lois Lane
- Jor-L (Flashback only)
- Lara-L (Flashback only)
- Perry White
Antagonists:
- Lex Luthor
- Danny the Dip, pickpocket
Locations:
- Metropolis
- Atlantic Ocean Bottom
- Earth's Moon
- Asiatic Jungle
- Antarctica
Items:
- Luthor's Artificial Kryptonite (First appearance)
Synopsis for Tommy Tomorrow: "50 Worlds in One"
Appearing in Tommy Tomorrow: "50 Worlds in One"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Planeteers
- Planeteer Cadets
- Kilmer
- Marlini
- Berson
- Planeteer General (Tommy's boss)
- Planeteer Cadets
Antagonists:
- Cadet Ross (pirate spy)
Animals:
- Jupiterian Giant Salamander (swims in magma and eats rock)
- Venusian Giant Insects
- Venusian Giant Chameleon
Locations:
- Earth-54 Universe (See Notes.)
- Planeteers' Academy
- Training World (specially-engineered asteroid)
Items:
- Planeteer Shock Rifles (nonlethal animal repellers)
Vehicles:
- Planeteer Spaceship
Synopsis for Congo Bill: "The Plundering of the Tai Ling"
Appearing in Congo Bill: "The Plundering of the Tai Ling"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- World Wide Insurance Company
Antagonists:
- John Knox, ship owner
- his crew: Sparks (radioman), others
Other characters:
- Miss Primrose, secretary, secretly Portuguese police
- Macoa Harbor Patrol (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Western Pacific Ocean
Vehicles:
- S.S. Tai Ling (Destroyed)
- W.W.I.C.'s airplane
Synopsis for Zatara: "Fighting Fools"
An entire small town full of ill-tempered idiots gets to fist-fighting among themselves, instead of attending Zatara's performance, so he looks into it, and applies magic to some of the combatants, in some comical ways. He finds the original quarrelers and publicly clears up their original misunderstanding, by having a dog and cat act out the conversation where the fight started. This smooths things over for everybody, and the fighters patch up their differences.
Appearing in Zatara: "Fighting Fools"
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- entire town, fighting one another
- John & Mary (mumblers)
- Timothy Snow (hard-of-hearing old coot)
- all of John's cousins and in-laws
- all of Tim's in-laws and cousins
- entire Fire Department
- entire Police Department
Locations:
- Turtle City
Synopsis for Vigilante: "A Day at the Rodeo"
Appearing in Vigilante: "A Day at the Rodeo"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Rodeo robbers
Other Characters:
- Mr. Conley (Tommy's boss)
Other Characters:
- Tommy Taggart, Vigilante fan
- Mr. Conley, Tommy's boss
Vehicles:
- Vigilante's Motorcycle
Notes
- Published by National Comics Publications, Inc.
- In Superman, Lex Luthor develops his first version of Artificial Kryptonite.
- Luthor's missing sample of synthetic Kryptonite is next seen next issue.
- Lex Luthor has a number of secret hide-outs in Metropolis.
- Lois Lane gets kidnapped one more time.
- Tommy Tomorrow:
- Crisis on Infinite Earths: The Compendium lists this issue's story as an appearance of Earth-54.
- After this issue, Stuff, the Chinatown Kid drops out of the Vigilante feature, but he returns in Action Comics #143.
- Final Zatara story for Action Comics. Artist Joe Kubert, responsible for Zatara's adventures in both Action Comics and World's Finest Comics at the time, is replaced by Ralph Mayo, starting with World's Finest #45, April-May 1950.)
Trivia
- Also appearing in this issue of Action Comics were:
- "You Don't Have To Wait 2 Months" (full page ad for the current issues of Star-Spangled Comics #101, Adventure Comics #149, and Detective Comics #156)
- Statement of Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc.
- Batman and Robin Stand Up for Sportsmanship! (Public Service Announcement) by Jack Schiff, Win Mortimer, Stan Kaye, and Ira Schnapp
- "Miss Liberty, Her Story" (text article), illustrated by Raymond Perry
- Shorty by Henry Boltinoff
- "Look Who's Here!" (full page ad for the current issue of Adventures of Bob Hope #1)
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