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Issue Details

Issue #189
Published June 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan (assistants)

Cover Details

Characters Superboy; Sky Girl
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

12 page Superboy story "The Girl of Steel"

Characters Lana Lang (as Sky Girl); Prof Lang; Superboy
Synopsis Professor Lang returns from an island like Easter Island where he suspects that an alien race had constructed giant statues. Part of his returning display of artifacts was a belt that incorporates their alien technology. Lana Lang dons the alien anti-magnetic and anti-gravity belt to become Sky Girl. Superboy uses the Lana's new super-powered identity as a chance to pay Lana for her secret identity snooping. Lana is rather mean about how she treats Clark. At the end Superboy gives Lana a super-compressed pebble with HIS secret Identity written in small letters on it. When Lana sets down the pebble the resulting crash alerts Superboy to Lana's dual id. After all, she does live next door.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman ?
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes rehashed in Adventure Comics #285. Synopsis by K. Rowand. Writer id by Bob Hughes 1/09

Half page Jerry Jitterbug filler "Hair Grower"

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

5 page Aquaman story "The Nautical Treasure Hunt"

Genre superhero
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon

6 page Johnny Quick story "Too Many Speed Kings"

Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Hy Mankin
Inks Hy Mankin
Notes credits from Rich Morrisey's notes 12/06
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #7; in Flash, The (DC, 1959 series) #205 (April 1971)

2 page text article "The Ship's Log"

Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset
Notes text w/illo.
Reprinted ALL HANDS

Half page story "Quick Quiz"

Script H. T. Elmo
Pencils H. T. Elmo
Inks H. T. Elmo
Letters H. T. Elmo

7 page Green Arrow story "The Legion of 100 Archers"

Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

1 page Peter Porkchops public service announcement "Carelessness Is No Joke!"

Genre funny animals
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Otto Feuer
Inks Otto Feuer
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Public Service Page