Unable to specify format for code comments

[jkb0932]

I apologize if this question has been asked before; I checked the forums and
different sites and read everything I could get my hands on but have been
stumped by this one, prob. because I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to
emacs. 

I would like to comment code for C source code such that 

/* this is the first line of a comment 
    and this is the second line of comment 
*/ 

becomes 

/* this is the first line of a comment 
 * this is the second line of a comment 
*/ 

In other words, put a '*' on each subsequent line. I know there is a
variable called "commend-continue", which is indeed set to " * " (I did C-h
v comment-continue RET), but I can't figure out how to make it actually
automatically insert this on each subsequent line. When I try to do "M-x
set-variable RET comment-continue RET" it says there's no such variable. 

If it helps, I've looked at newcomment.el, which does indeed have a line
dedicated to it, but is not marked "autoload", so I'm guessing it has loaded
or defined, but I'm not sure how to do this (again, I'm a newbie). 

Appreciate any feedback anyone can give. Thanks in advance.
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