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The Zabra Collection-PRIMARY SET
Action Comics 143
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COMIC DETAILS
Comic Description:
Action Comics #143 Universal
Grade:
4.0
Page Quality:
OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Certification #:
0165909001
Owner:
Zabra
SET DETAILS
Winning Set:
The Zabra Collection-PRIMARY SET
Date Added:
6/27/2016
Research:
See CGC's Census Report for this Comic
Owner's Description
ACTION COMICS # 143 CGC 4.0-THE BRIDE OF SUPERMAN
Cover Date: April 1950
This book almost never comes up for sale. It a very rare issue of Action Comics.
It went on sale on February 15, 1950. The cover price was 10 cents and it had 48 pages. The editor was Mort Weisinger and artist Al Plastino.
Cover art by Al Plastino. The Bride of Superman, script by Bill Woolfolk, art by Al Plastino. The Treasure in the Atom starring Tommy Tomorrow, script by Otto Binder, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by John Fischetti. The Perfect Specimen starring Congo Bill, script by Otto Binder, art by Ed Smalle. The Days of '49 starring Vigilante, script by Gardner Fox, art by Dan Barry. Superman's Code for Buddies public service announcement, script by Jack Schiff, art by Al Plastino. 52 pgs. $0.10. Cover price $0.10.
On the first page of this issue you will see Superman getting ready to marry a mystery woman before a judge and Lois Lane is protesting.
A news flash at the Daily Planet indicates European glamor girl NIKKI LARUE will be arriving in the United States onboard the S.S. REGINA and that she will be met by her mysterious fiance. Clark Kent and Lois Lane set out to cover the story. Lois Lane dodges Clark Kent by telling him that she has an errand to run but instead takes a rowboat out to the S.S. REGINA before the ship docks.
When Lois Lane scrambles up the S.S. REGINA'S ladder to the first class deck she sees NIKKI LARUE in a veil and interviews her about who her mysterious suitor is. NIKKI informs her that her fiance is the most charming man that she has ever known. As the ship sails past the Statue of Liberty there is an amazing display of fireworks created by Superman for Nikki. The display is followed by The Man of Tomorrow completing his welcome to NIKKI with a spectacular smoke written valentine in the sky-" I LOVE YOU NIKKI." Lois Lane appears puzzled and is informed by NIKKI that Superman is her fiance. Lois Lane faints in Superman's arms and then regains consciousness. She pats Superman's cheek and is informed by him that she should refrain from this gesture as now he is an ENGAGED MAN.
Lois Lane is very upset and reminds Superman that he is in love with her and not NIKKI. Superman ignores her. He then grabs a piece of coal and applies terrific pressure to it converting it to a 20 carat diamond. He then gifts the diamond to NIKKI. Lois Lane quietly sobs.
That night in her apartment Lois shares her dilemma with her closet girlfriend PEGGY. She tells PEGGY that she feels humiliated. PEGGY brings up the issue of NIKKI hiding behind a veil and Lois Lane decides to investigate.
The following day Lois Lane goes to the CARLTON HOTEL where NIKKI is staying disguised as a scrubwoman. On the pretense of mopping NIKKI'S room Lois enters it only to find NIKKI without a veil with a ordinary face and glasses. Nikki leaves and Superman enters the room. Lois gets very angry at him and decides to put him to a test as suggested by her girlfriend PEGGY.
BOBO NEWTON, a notorious gangster breaks out of jail and is shooting it out with the police at the railroad yards. He is holed up in a freight car. Lois lane runs towards the freight car and is taken hostage by the gangster. Lois had thought that Superman would save her and that it would be a test of his love for her but Superman is nowhere in sight. Suddenly, Superman appears and uses his super breath to spin the freight car. Both Lois and the gangster get super dizzy and Lois is rescued. Lois now appears convinced that Superman loves her but Superman informs her that he had to choose between beauty and brains and that he chose BRAINS.
Back at the Daily Planet Perry White makes Lois run a story titled "I WAS JILTED BY SUPERMAN." In a different part of town two swarthy strangers scan the headlines with avid interest. Both strangers wear TURBANS and one of them is named FAZIR. They have been trying to get close to NIKKI but because she is always with Superman they have not been able to do so. FAZIR thinks that he now has a chance secondary to the lovesick Lois Lane.
Superman and NIKKI have been spending their romantic time by working on NIKKI'S experiment "THE CYCLOTRON" and are now ready for the last step of this experiment. NIKKI pulls the lever of her machine and informs Superman that something has gone wrong. The CYCLOTRON splits the atom all right but the PLUTONIUM that is left over is about to explode and set off a chain reaction that could wipe out the world. In a split second Superman crashes into the CYCLOTRON and smothers the atomic explosion absorbing the full shock himself saving the world from destruction. But NIKKI now has the exact formula that she has been searching for. They add it to their blueprint. Meanwhile outside the door is Lois Lane who was told of the location of Superman and NIKKI by the foreigner FAZIR. Lois knocks on the door but is immediately taken hostage by FAZIR with a STILETTO.
FAZIR takes pictures of the blueprints of the CYCLOTRON EXPERIMENT completed by MADAME NICOLAI ("NIKKI") in America. MADAME NICOLAI is actually the world famous ATOMIC SCIENTIST. Superman lets FAZIR take pictures of the blueprints so that Lois is not harmed. He then secretly uses his xray vision to ruin the film negatives without FAZIR'S knowledge. He informs LOIS and NIKKI that FAZIR can return to his country with blank photos and that his ruler will punish him for his failure.
Superman then flies off to WASHINGTON to deliver the blueprints of the CYCLOTRON EXPERIMENT to the U.S. Government. Meanwhile, NIKKI informs LOIS that she was invited to America on a TOP SECRET MISSION to experiment with ATOMIC ENERGY. To protect her from spies they arranged for SUPERMAN to become her sweetheart and that way he could guard her constantly without arousing suspicion about what she was doing in America. Lois apologizes to MADAME NICOLAI and realizes how silly she has been.
Next day in the Daily Planet office Lois converses with Clark Kent who indicates to her that he understands that she found out that Superman was not in love with NIKKI but on the other hand it also did not mean that he is in love with Lois. Lois Lane admits that after all this she is still not sure if Superman loves her or not. She ends the discussion by saying,
"JEEPERS! I WONDER IF I'LL EVER KNOW."
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