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Issue Details

Issue #263
Published August 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Great Superboy Double-Cross!"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent; Sherlock Hames [as Sherlock Haymes]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

13 page Superboy story "The Great Superboy Doublecross"

Characters Ma and Pa Kent; Sherlock Hames; Kryptonite
Synopsis Dad Kent hires a private detective to discover Superboy's secret identity.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes The detective's name was spelled Sherlock Haymes on the cover, but Hames in the story.

1 page Shorty filler "Dollar and a half steak"

Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

5 page Green Arrow story "Have Arrow--Will Travel!"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]
Synopsis Speedy takes up odd-jobs to raise money for a sailboat. Some crooks try to take advantage of Speedy but he catches onto their scheme.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Reprinted in Teen Titans (DC, 1966 series) #35 (September-October 1971); in Showcase Presents Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Jerry the Jitterbug story "Her kid brother is a pest"

Genre teen humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

6 page Aquaman story "The Great Ocean Election!"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Honest Vic Wake; Govenor Big Jim Mason; Topo
Synopsis Aquaman helps Honest Vic Wake in his campaign to be elected over the crooked Govenor Big Jim Mason.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein ?
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon
Notes writer id by Bob Hughes 8/05.
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #43; in Aquaman Archives, The (DC, 2000 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Aquaman (DC, 2007 series) #1