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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published March-April 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Superman, what were you like when you were a boy?"

Characters Superman; (no Superboy)
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #1; in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #157; in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

12 page Superboy story "The Man Who Could See Tomorrow!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Superboy (flashback); Brandar the Great; Margo Griffiths
Synopsis Brandar the Great predicts the future. At a party attended by young Clark Kent he predicted that Margo Griffiths, now a young nurse in Metropolis, would cease to exist on her 21st birthday.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron ?
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka ?
Notes really a Superman story, with the Superboy segment as a flashback.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Rocket Plane"

Genre superhero
Pencils Al Wenzel
Inks Al Wenzel

2 page Shorty filler

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

10 page Superboy story "The Boy Vandals!"

Characters Superboy; The Smash and Grab Gang
Synopsis Superboy teaches some young vandals a lesson.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hamilton
Pencils Al Wenzel
Inks Stan Kaye ?
Notes takes place in Metropolis. art id by Bob Hughes 10/07- Art id in the Superboy Millennium edition is incorrect.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

1 page Daffy & Doodle filler

Pencils Lit-win

2 page text article "The Language of the Sea"

Script Cliff Rhodes
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset
Notes text page

2 page Sagebrush Sam filler

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

Half page Shorty filler

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

12 page Superboy story "Superboy Meets Mighty Boy!"

Characters Mighty Boy (intro); Superboy; Jay V. Atkins
Synopsis A young boy is duped by an unscrupulous promoter into thinking he's stronger than Superboy.
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk ?
Pencils Al Wenzel
Inks Al Wenzel
Notes takes place in Metropolis. Art id by Bob Hughes 10/07- art id in The Millennium reprint is incorrect.
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Superboy No. 1 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

1 page Homer filler

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