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"Superman: "The Super-Gorilla from Krypton"": In Africa, a visiting Jimmy Olsen is attacked by a super-gorilla. Jimmy summons Superman with his Signal Watch. Superman discover a space capsule and that this gorilla is from Krypton, and

Action Comics #238 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of March, 1958.

Synopsis for Superman: "The Super-Gorilla from Krypton"

In Africa, a visiting Jimmy Olsen is attacked by a super-gorilla. Jimmy summons Superman with his Signal Watch. Superman discover a space capsule and that this gorilla is from Krypton, and Jimmy names the creature as King Krypton. Fight after fight, seems as the Man of Steel can't handle the Gorilla of Steel, as an ordinary Terran man can't handle a ordinary gorilla without external ways. In the jungles, Jimmy discover an Coliseum replica, and descendents of the Ancient Romans, now reverted to primitive tribesmen. Their king force Superman and King Krypton to fight between themselves. The fight causes the ground to break, revealing kryptonite under the soil. The Super-Gorilla shields the radiation with his own body, and slowly he becomes human! Actually he was a Kryptonian scientist devolved into a gorilla by a defective evolution device and shot into space in a capsule by his partner. King Krypton dies as a human.

Appearing in Superman: "The Super-Gorilla from Krypton"

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  • King Krypton (Single appearance; dies)

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  • African tribesmen

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Synopsis for Tommy Tomorrow: "Marooned in the Fourth Dimension"

Tommy Tomorrow is sent by Planeteer Commander to help Prof. Jaxon in Asteroid X-33, who wants test his Dimension cabinet in a human volunteer.

Appearing in Tommy Tomorrow: "Marooned in the Fourth Dimension"

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  • Genius Jones (posing as Professor Jaxon)
  • Space Looter

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  • Planeteers' Commander
  • Space Alcatraz warden
  • Electric-man from Neptune

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  • Daily Meteor (newspaper)
  • Dimension cabinet
  • Suspended animation serum
  • Frost-ray
  • Robot guards
  • Tommy Tomorrow's Ray-Gun

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  • Space Ace

Synopsis for Congo Bill: "The Tenderfoot Hunter"


Appearing in Congo Bill: "The Tenderfoot Hunter"

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Trivia

  • "Marooned in the Fourth Dimension" seems an implausible story, since the Planeteer Commander was who had the idea of send a convict from Space Alcatraz. How could Genius Jones to know that Tommy would bring Jones' criminal partner?


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