PropertyValue
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  • Action Comics Vol 1 17
Indicia Publisher
  • Detective Comics, Inc.
Letterer1
  • Bernard Baily
  • Sven Elven
Inker1
  • Bob Kane
  • Bernard Baily
  • Fred Guardineer
  • Homer Fleming
  • Sven Elven
  • Paul Cassidy
Inker1
  • Bob Kane
  • Bernard Baily
  • Fred Guardineer
  • Homer Fleming
  • Sven Elven
  • Paul Cassidy
Writer1
  • Bill Finger
  • Gardner Fox
  • Homer Fleming
  • Jerry Siegel
  • Ken Fitch
Penciler1
  • Bob Kane
  • Bernard Baily
  • Fred Guardineer
  • Homer Fleming
  • Joe Shuster
  • Sven Elven
Writer1
  • Bill Finger
  • Gardner Fox
  • Homer Fleming
  • Jerry Siegel
  • Ken Fitch
StoryTitle
  • On the Ranch
  • The Cult of the Tiger
  • The Mysterious Rescue
  • The Peril of Ophir
  • The Return of the Gorrah
  • The Return of the Ultra-Humanite
  • The Stage Hold-up
OriginalPrice
  • 0.1
Editor1
  • Vincent Sullivan
Penciler1
  • Bob Kane
  • Bernard Baily
  • Fred Guardineer
  • Homer Fleming
  • Joe Shuster
  • Sven Elven
Appearing
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Adversaries: * Other Characters: * None Locations: * ** *** Items: * None Vehicles: * Steamship "Clarion"
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Kargan Adversaries: * Abu El-Kaf Other Characters: * None Locations: * Items: * None Vehicles: * None
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Blacky Adversaries: * Gun-Hawks ** Ham Other Characters: * Sheriff Locations: * ** Items: * None Vehicles: * a Stagecoach
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Ali-Baba * Adversaries: * One-Eyed Gorrah Other Characters: * Gargantua T. Potts Locations: * ** *** Items: * None Vehicles: * None
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * None Adversaries: * Setap Other Characters: * Beth Jordan * John Jordan Locations: * ** ** Atlantis Items: * Flame of Life Vehicles: * None
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Mr. Smith * Mary Smith Adversaries: * Pedro Other Characters: * Buck Locations: * Items: * None Vehicles: * Airplane
  • Featured Characters: * Supporting Characters: * Japur Chunda Adversaries: * Cult of the Tiger Other Characters: * Jaffeer * Panjore Locations: * ** Items: * None Vehicles: * None
Letterer1
  • Bernard Baily
  • Sven Elven
Editor1
  • Vincent Sullivan
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CoverArtist
  • Joe Shuster
Country
  • USA
ReleaseDate
  • 1939-08-31
Executive Editor
  • Vincent Sullivan
Issue
  • 17
Pages
  • 68
Volume
  • 1
Title
  • Action Comics
Month
  • October
Synopsis
  • Clip Carson is exploring the Bengal jungle, when a cry reaches his ears, followed by the roar of a big cat. Clip follows the sounds to a man being attacked by a tiger! He fires his rifle at the beast, slaying it. The man he saved, Clip finds out, is an old college buddy of his, Japur Chunda. Japur confides that he was being threatened by a group calling themselves the Cult of the Tiger, a group that assassinated his father months earlier. Clip decides to help his old friend fight them off. Chunda introduces Clip to his step-brother Jaffeer, and cousin Panjore, with whom he shares his estate. That night, Clip converses with Jaffeer about his theory that the cult is murdering in order to gain possession of the estate and surrounding land. His fathers death means that his brother, Japur, was the next in line to the inheritance. Suddenly, Clip hears a sound outside the study, and he is about to open the door to find out who it was...
  • Pep and his friends, Mr. Smith and Mary, take a vacation out at Smith's ranch. Pedro, one of the ranch hands, is caught whipping a horse, and when Pep tries to stop it, Pedro lays into him! Mr. Smith fires Pedro on the spot! Later that day Pep, Mary and her father tour the range on horseback. A bullet suddenly whizzes by, just missing Pep, but making a hole in his hat! They can just make out the form of Pedro before he runs off between the boulders. As soon as they return, Mr. Smith gives orders to his foreman, Buck, to gather a search party to bring Pedro in. That night, when everyone has turned in, Pedro returns to the house and starts a fire outside. The whinnying of the horses as Pedro tries to steal one wakes Pep up and brings him to the window. He hurriedly alerts the others. Using a line of people to pass each other buckets of water, the fire is eventually extinguished. Because they were so quick to respond, Pedro hadn't enough time to grab a horse. He is quickly tracked down and beaten up by Pep. Mr. Smith stops Pep, telling him to leave some for the sheriff and the others at Pedro's "necktie party".
  • Marco is rescued from El Kaf's slavers by Kargan and his band. The next morning, Marco and Kargan decide to pay Abu El Kaf a visit, to put an end to his cruel slave-driving ways once and for all. At El Kaf's palace, inside the walled city, Kargan and his men deal with the guards, while Marco gives chase to the fleeing Abu!
  • Chuck Dawson is held up by two ne'er-do-wells as he rides down the trail. They expect him to help them rob an incoming stagecoach carrying gold in from Red Valley. But Chuck would never help a pair of crooks, even if his life was in the balance! Catching them off guard, Chuck slips away on his horse, riding until they're bullets can no longer reach him. He rounds back, taking a shortcut to the top of a cliff where he can watch over the stagecoach as it passes beneath him in a rush. Shots are fired from the pursuing bandits, Chuck takes his gun and fires at them, felling one and sending the other running. The coach and it's gold delivery is saved, and Chuck rides off for his next adventure.
Notes
  • * The Return of the Ultra-Humanite is reprinted in Action Comics Archives, Volume 1. * "The Return of the Ultra-Humanite" originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of Action Comics Archives, Volume 1 in which this story is reprinted. * One-Eyed Gorrah appeared last in Action Comics #3. * Final Marco Polo story in this issue. Ends on a cliffhanger.
Publisher
  • DC Comics
Year
  • 1939