Action Comics Vol 1 141

"Superman: "Luthor's Secret Weapon"": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.

Superman: "Luthor's Secret Weapon"
Cover
Action Comics Vol 1 #141
February, 1950
Executive Editor	Whitney Ellsworth
Cover Artists	Wayne Boring Stan Kaye
Superman: "Luthor's Secret Weapon"
Writers	Alvin Schwartz
Pencilers	Wayne Boring
Inkers	Stan Kaye
Editors	Mort Weisinger
Tommy Tomorrow: "50 Worlds in One"
Writers	Edmond Hamilton
Pencilers	Curt Swan
Inkers	John Fischetti
Congo Bill: "The Plundering of the Tai Ling"
Pencilers	Edwin J. Smalle, Jr.
Inkers	Edwin J. Smalle, Jr.
Zatara: "Fighting Fools"
Pencilers	Joe Kubert
Inkers	Joe Kubert
Vigilante: "A Day at the Rodeo"
Writers	Gardner Fox
Pencilers	Dan Barry
Inkers	Dan Barry
Previous Issue	Action Comics # 140
Next Issue	Action Comics # 142

The police want to question me again about my kidnapping, Chief. See you later!

— Lois Lane

Action Comics #141 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1950.

Appearing in Superman: "Luthor's Secret Weapon"

Featured Characters:

• Superman

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)
  

Appearing in Tommy Tomorrow: "50 Worlds in One"

Featured Characters:

• Colonel Tommy Tomorrow

Supporting Characters:

• Planeteers
  • Planeteer Cadets
    • Kilmer
    • Marlini
    • Berson
  • Planeteer General (Tommy's boss)

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
  

Appearing in Congo Bill: "The Plundering of the Tai Ling"

Featured Characters:

• Congo Bill

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
  • Hong Kong
  • Macoa, tiny Portuguese gambling colony
  • Manila

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:

• Zatara

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
  

Appearing in Vigilante: "A Day at the Rodeo"

Featured Characters:

• Vigilante

Supporting Characters:

• Stuff, the Chinatown Kid

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)

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Action Comics series

Links and References

Summary Needed

This page is missing a well-written and detailed synopsis. If there is already a synopsis here, it might need to be modified or expanded. You can help the DC Database by adding a summary of the story.
Look at how sad this is making Batman. You did this.