ACTION COMICS (1938) #167
Be Sure of Your Facts!: (public service message from Buzzy) The Machines of Crime: (Superman) multicolored, spherical machines appear and steal first a ton of pennies, then a bunch of orange juice, and fireworks, and finally fail to steal radium. everyone is trying to figure out who could be controlling the machines but it turns out they are being piloted by bug-like aliens who are gathering ingredients for rocket fuel so they can get back into space. Jerry Jitterbug: (gag strip by Henry Boltinoff) Susie: (gag strip) The Man Who Stopped Space Flight: (Tommy Tomorrow) An Earth isolationist who thinks space travel should be banned activates a machine that keeps all spaceships from working.…
