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Issue Details

Issue #256
Published January 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (Managing Editor), Mort Weisinger, (story editor), George Kashdan (story editor)

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

13 page Superboy story "The Dragnet For Superboy"

Characters Chief James Wilton, "Flash" Ward, Pa Kent, Kryptonite
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

1 page public service announcement "Formula For Success"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

Half page Jerry The Jitterbug filler

Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Aquaman story "The Ordeal of Aquaman"

Characters Topo
Genre superhero
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon

1 page Varsity Vic filler

Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Green Arrow story "The Green Arrow's First Case"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Arrow-Plane; Carter (Seaman)
Synopsis Oliver Queen is marooned on Starfish Island, where he hones his skills as an archer and develops trick arrows. When an expedition sets out to explore the island years later, he fools them with his fake-uranium arrow.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Herron; Jack Kirby (plot?)
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Jack Kirby; Roz Kirby (backgrounds)
Notes Origin of Green Arrow.
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #187 (September 1969); in Secret Origins of the Super DC Heroes (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1976 series) #nn; in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #9 (May 1981); in Green Arrow By Jack Kirby, The (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #2/1970