Action Comics #20

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SUPERMAN AND THE SCREEN SIREN The Ultra-Humanite has his brain transplanted from his old decrepit body into that of hot young movie starlet Dolores Winters. S/he attempts to kidnap and ransom a yacht full of Hollywood celebrities, but Superman puts the kibosh on this scheme. While Superman is rescuing all the hostages, Ultra-Humanite escapes undetected. AT THE AIR SHOW After saving his life from an airborne fire, Pep is invited by pilot Jimmy Dee to be his official mechanic for the next plane racing tournament. When a gambler spikes Jimmy's drink, Pep has to fly the plane, win the race, and land the plane, with no instruction or other help. MURDER IN RATTLESNAKE CANYON Chuck comes across a murdered man, and the killers are still nearby. A shoot-out breaks out, but everybody emerges from it alive. Chuck vows to deal with these murderers later. THE IVORY SAFARI PART 2 Clip Carson is still making his way through the African jungle, with his hired porters carrying the crates of ivory. But the villainous Wolf Lupo eventually catches up to them.   Lupo and his men tie up Clip and the natives, and Wolf grants Clip a last request, to let him play his harmonica one final time. The music travels through the jungle, and before the bad guys know it, flying spears arc out of the brush, hitting Wolf's men square in the chest and knocking them dead! The Wanangi tribe have come to help their friend Clip! Wolf tries to shoot Clip, but a spear impales him, and he falls flat, dead.   The Wanangi chief offers to help carry the ivory to the shore, it being the least they can do for one the tribe calls "friend". THE ZOMBIES PART 2 Tex Thomson, Bob Daley, and Gargantua T. Potts were administered the zombie serum, though fortunately, the salt they swallowed saved them from the effects. Now it was time to plot their escape, as they were thrown in a hut with the zombified expedition team. They have extra salt with them, to give to the other men, and once restored to their senses they all escape. AERIAL SURVEY During a survey of the river in the Alaskan mountains, the Three Aces spot the word "Help" written in the snow. Gunner parachutes down to investigate. He find finds an old man and a girl, and they've been shot by fur trappers. Finding them solves half the problem, but they're still beyond the reach of any medical help or rescue effort, and the Aces' planes can't land in this blizzard. Gunner and the girl survive for a harrowing week, fighting off wolves at close quarters, but eventually get help and a ride back home. THE MOON MEN Moon-Men, entrenched in an underground, under-ocean cavern, pump iradium gas into several population centers, killing thousands of Europeans and Africans in coastal cities on both continents. Zatara is assisted by Nala of the Wingrace, a strange young woman with fairy-like wings. They infiltrate the Moon Men's city and turn their own gas against them, neutralizing the threat to humanity, by killing all of the Moon Men.