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Cover: Curt Swan & Stan Kaye

Action Comics #240

May 1958 · DC · 0.10 USD
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In "Secret of the Superman Sphinx," Bill and Janu team up with Professor Wakely to recover a crucial component for his enlarging ray, now lost in the tall grass. With Bill volunteering to shrink to just an inch tall, the world around him transforms into a perilous landscape where ordinary insects loom as towering threats. Written by Jack Miller and illustrated by Howard Sherman, with Curt Swan and Stan Kaye handling the cover, this 1958 adventure blends science and suspense in a clever, scaled-down showdown.

Contains 5 stories
Secret of the Superman Sphinx
12 pp · Superhero
Superman [Clark Kent]Lois LaneClark Kent robotPerry White

In "Secret of the Superman Sphinx," Lois Lane stumbles upon a Clark Kent robot hidden in a Daily Planet closet, while a mysterious Sphinx—its face a striking likeness of Superman, eyes glowing with kryptonite vision—suddenly ascends into orbit above Earth. The story unfolds as the two enigmas intertwine, setting off a chain of events that tests the limits of identity, trust, and the very nature of heroism.

Untitled Humor story
1 pp · Humor
The Trial of Tommy Tomorrow
6 pp · Adventure, Science Fiction
Colonel Tommy TomorrowCaptain Brent Wood
Untitled Humor story
0.67 pp · Humor
Trapped in the Insect World
6 pp · Adventure, Drama, Jungle
Congo BillJanu the Jungle BoyProfessor Wakely

In "Trapped in the Insect World," Bill and Janu join Professor Wakely on a perilous quest through towering grass, searching for a missing component to power his shrinking ray—only to find themselves shrunk to an inch tall, where ordinary insects loom as colossal threats. The story unfolds with tense, grounded urgency as the trio navigates a world turned alien and dangerous, each blade of grass a forest, each drop of dew a lake.

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Raw (VG) $77
CGC 9.6 · 2 in census $4,664*
CGC 9.4 $2,634
CGC 9.2 · 1 in census $1,384*
CGC 9.0 · 1 in census $964
CGC 8.5 · 2 in census $643
CGC 8.0 · 3 in census $515
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CGC 7.5 · 1 in census $394*
CGC 7.0 · 3 in census $330*
CGC 6.5 · 5 in census $226
CGC 6.0 · 1 in census $226*
CGC 5.5 · 1 in census $142
CGC 5.0 · 3 in census $142*
CGC 4.5 · 1 in census $142*
CGC 4.0 · 4 in census $142*
CGC 3.5 · 1 in census $126*
CGC 3.0 · 1 in census $98*
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Full credits

artist, inker Howard Sherman
cover pencils Curt Swan
cover inks Stan Kaye

Reprints

↩ Reprints The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #10 (1953), World's Finest Comics #66 (1953)

Reprinted in The Hundred Comic Monthly #22 (1958), Titanes Planetarios #62 (1958), Mammoth Annual #1 (1959), Big Boy #45 (1960), Mighty Comic #48 (1965), Legion of Super-Heroes #3 (1973), Big Boss #26 (1975), Superman in Action Comics #1 (1993), The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s #[nn] (1995), Albi del Falco #127, Stålmannen #24/1958

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