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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published August-September 1953
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "Clark Kent, Runaway!"

Characters Clark Kent
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

10 page Superboy story "The Pied Piper of Smallville"

Characters Lana Lang
Synopsis A clarinet playing bum seems to have hypnotized the kids of Smallville into following him into the most dangerous places.
Genre superhero
Script Writer A [John Broome?]
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes writer id by Martin O'Hearn

9 page Superboy story "The Movie Star of Tomorrow!"

Characters Lana Lang, Jonathan Exo, Dirl Heston
Synopsis Superboy is snatched into the future to make a movie of his life
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sy Barry
Notes writer id by Martin O'Hearn, inker id by Bob Hughes 4/05 (formerly Stan Kaye)

1 page Little Pete filler

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

2 page text article "The Ship's Log"

Letters typeset
Notes text page, reprinted from ALL HANDS, Bureau of Naval Personnel

1 page Binky public service announcement "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

Genre teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Practive Batting Range!"

9 page Superboy story "Clark Kent, Runaway!"

Characters Lana Lang, Ma and Pa Kent (bald), Mrs Lang
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes writer id by Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #6; in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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