Object label
DC Comics · Comics · Action Comics · 1959
Action Comics #252
Action Comics · 1959
Witness the origin and first appearance of Supergirl in "The Supergirl from Krypton!" Kara Zor-El, Superman's long-lost cousin, arrives on Earth and adopts a secret identity to aid Superman in the ongoing fight for truth and justice!
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Action Comics #252 belongs to a comics graph built around publisher, series, issue number, characters, creators like Al Plastino, Curt Swan, and Henry Boltinoff, and story context. The important part is not just the issue record, but how it connects into runs, appearances, and adjacent covers.
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Action Comics #252 is a comics collectible connected to DC Comics and Action Comics. Useful collector signals include release year 1959, issue #252, and artist context from Al Plastino, Curt Swan, and Henry Boltinoff. Action Comics has 46 catalogued releases on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Collector notes
Action Comics #252 is a comics entry for issue #252 in Action Comics from 1959. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
DC Comics pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Alura, Congorilla, Janu, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, and Metallo.
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- Release span
- 1938-2001
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Quick facts
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Series
- Action Comics
- Issue number
- #252
- Cover date
- May 1, 1959
- Characters
- Alura, Congorilla, Janu, Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Metallo +5 more
- Creators
- Al Plastino, Curt Swan, Henry Boltinoff, Howard Sherman, Mort Weisinger, Otto Binder +1 more
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Data source
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- Metron
- Source ID
- 35145
- Source URL
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