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Issue Details

Issue #254
Published November 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Jack Schiff (Managing Editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

12 page Superboy story "I Was a Teen-Age Superboy"

Characters Krypto; Jimmy Saunders; Ronnie James; Fred Gordon; Prof Lang; Lana Lang; Ma Kent
Synopsis Superboy mysteriously gives different super powers to various people in Smallville.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Notes Bottom of last page has Tootsie Roll ad.

1 page Private Pete filler "KP"

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "Showcase #17 - Adventures of Other Worlds"

Genre superhero

5 page Aquaman story "The Menace of the Electric Man"

Characters Electric Man
Genre superhero
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon
Notes bottom of last page has Tootsie Popl ad

1 page public service announcement "Look to the Stars!"

Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Lou Cameron
Inks Lou Cameron
Letters Ira Schnapp

1 page Tricksy filler "Deep Sea Diving"

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Smallville Mailsack letters page

Letters typeset
Notes Replies read like Murray Boltinoff.

5 page Green Arrow story "The Green Arrow's Last Stand"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Professor Hagen; Arrowcar; Arrowplane; Brave Turtle (Medicine Man)
Synopsis Green Arrow and Speedy land in a remote valley that is still occupied by Sioux Indian warriors.
Genre superhero
Script Dave Wood
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Jack Kirby; Roz Kirby (backgrounds)
Notes bottom of last page has Tootsie Roll contest ad
Reprinted in Super-Team Family (DC, 1975 series) #9 (February-March 1977); in Green Arrow By Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1

Half page Western Facts filler "Cowboy Talk"

Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Letters Martin Naydel
Notes Bottom of page has Palisades Park ad.
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