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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published July 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "The Gaucho of Smallville!"

Characters Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "Superboy's Two Rivals"

Characters Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Josh Rawlings; Peter Valadny; Midge Willis; Doc
Synopsis Pa Kent mysteriously tries to hire the world's greatest detective and the world's strongest man.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page Binky public service announcement "Family Projects Can Be Fun!"

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

8 page Superboy story "Superboy, Stowaway!"

Characters Lana Lang; Prof Lang
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein ?
Notes Inks credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005; the original indexer credited John Fischetti.
Reprinted in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

2 page Shorty filler

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

2 page text article "The Fastest Thing on Earth"

Script Jack Miller [as Joe Mallon]
Letters typeset

1 page Peg filler

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

8 page Superboy story "The Gaucho of Smallville!"

Synopsis Superboy helps vindicate an Argentinian cowboy who moves to Smallville.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Weather Guide"

Genre superhero