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Issue Details

Issue #18
Published February-March 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Painting the fence in only a few seconds -- that's our boy, Ma!"

Characters Superboy; Ma Kent; Pa Kent
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Be Yourself -- Your Best Self!"

Genre teen; humor
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes inside front cover

9 page Superboy story "Lana Lang Movie Star!"

Characters Lana Lang (brown Hair), Prof John Lang, Mrs Lang
Synopsis Lana is offered a Hollywood movie role based on stunts Superboy secretly helped her do.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hamilton?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Fischetti
Notes rehashed in Adventure 312. Inker and writer id by Bob Hughes 4/05

9 page Superboy story "Superboy's Big Brother!"

Characters Ma and Pa Kent (Jonathan and Martha), Robert "Kent"
Synopsis The Kents adopt another boy who is slightly older than Clark
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz?
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka?
Notes writer id by Bob Hughes 4/05. Inker id by Bob Hughes 7/05.

1 page Captain Tootsie advertisement "Radar Rescue"

Genre superhero
Pencils C. C. Beck
Inks C. C. Beck

Half page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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

2 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Atomic Cloud Chamber"

Genre superhero

2 page text article "For Club and Country"

Script David King
Letters typeset
Notes text page

9 page Superboy story "The Men Who Doubted Superboy!"

Synopsis A scientific committee comes to Smallville to investigate rumours of a Superboy.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka?
Notes inker id by Bob Hughes 7/05

Half page Casey the Cop filler

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

1 page Private Pete filler

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