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Action Comics#137
Cover: Wayne Boring & Stan Kaye

Action Comics #137

Oct 1949 · DC · 0.10 USD
“The Man with the Charmed Life!”

Superman saves the life of Percival Winters, a star witness against a mobster, on one hundred occasions. Winters is annoyed, as he believes a ring he wears bestows complete protection against danger. Superman proves it to be a fraud, but not before it passes to Lois Lane, who puts herself in reckless danger and has to be saved by Superman.

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writer Edmond Hamilton · artist Wayne Boring · inker Stan Kaye · cover Wayne BoringStan Kaye

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inker Stan Kaye
cover pencils Wayne Boring
cover inks Stan Kaye

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Superman saves the life of Percival Winters, a star witness against a mobster, on one hundred occasions. Winters is annoyed, as he believes a ring he wears bestows complete protection against danger. Superman proves it to be a fraud, but not before it passes to Lois Lane, who puts herself in reckless danger and has to be saved by Superman.

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