Action Comics #224 for Sale - First Appearance of The Golden Gorilla - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #224
Publication date: January 1957
Key date: 1957-01-00
On-sale date: 1956-11-27
Indicia publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Golden Gorilla - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Secret of Superman Island!	cover	1	pencils: Al Plastino; inks: Al Plastino; colors: Jack Adler	Clark Kent, Superman
2	The Secret of Superman Island!	comic story	12	script: Edmond Hamilton; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan Kaye	Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Superman, Perry White
4	Buzzy's "Famous Books" Quiz	public service announcement	1	script: Jack Schiff; pencils: Amilcar Ruben Moreira; inks: Amilcar Ruben Moreira
5	The Golden Gorilla	comic story	5.67	script: Jack Miller; pencils: Howard Sherman; inks: Howard Sherman	Congo Bill, The Golden Gorilla First, Janu
6	Superman's Secret Message	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.33	letters: typeset
7	-	comic story	0.5	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Shorty
9	-	comic story	1	script: Henry Boltinoff; pencils: Henry Boltinoff; inks: Henry Boltinoff; letters: Henry Boltinoff	Little Pete
10	Daredevils of the Deep	text article	2	pencils: Raymond Perry; inks: Raymond Perry
11	Seven Disappearing Wonders of Space!	comic story	6	script: Otto Binder; pencils: Jim Mooney; inks: Jim Mooney	Colonel Tommy Tomorrow

Plus 6.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 7 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] ISBN 0517551004	1983	On eBay ›
Superman in Action Comics #1 ISBN 1-55859-595-3	1993	On eBay ›
The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s #[nn] ISBN 0-89660-055-6	1995	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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