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Cover: Al Plastino & Al Plastino

Action Comics #177

Feb 1953 · DC · 0.10 USD
“Anti-Superman Weapon”

Tommy and Brent find a ship's lifeboat floating in space, containing four children abandoned by their parents. They claim to be from Zura, but no such planet is known. Thinking it a misremembering by the children, the Planeteers try a number of planets to no avail. The kids prove to be great scientific inventors and Tommy eventually tricks them into making a truth-confession machine. Under its influence their home world is revealed to be in another star system.

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writer Edmond Hamilton · artist Jim Mooney · inker Jim Mooney · cover Al PlastinoAl Plastino

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artist Jim Mooney
cover pencils Al Plastino
cover inks Al Plastino

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Tommy and Brent find a ship's lifeboat floating in space, containing four children abandoned by their parents. They claim to be from Zura, but no such planet is known. Thinking it a misremembering by the children, the Planeteers try a number of planets to no avail. The kids prove to be great scientific inventors and Tommy eventually tricks them into making a truth-confession machine. Under its influence their home world is revealed to be in another star system.

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