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Issue Details

Issue #44
Published October 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "Gosh! This isn't the fake weight prepared for Clark's act, but the real thing!"

Characters Superboy; Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Inks credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005

8 page Superboy story "The Amazing Adventures of Superboy's Costume"

Synopsis After Superboy uses his costume to stop a nuclear explosion, it is blown away. Forced to change to Clark, he is quarantined for radiation exposure and must use his powers to make his costume perform super deeds via remote control.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder ?
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Script credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005

Half page State Facts filler "Colorado"

Genre fact

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "What Are You Getting Out of School?"

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

8 page Superboy story "The Jobs Superboy Lost"

Characters Martha Kent; Superboy
Synopsis Clark tries to get a job to earn some money for his parents' silver anniversary, but Superboy keeps interfering.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page Peg filler

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

2 page text article "Rides of Peril"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset

8 page Superboy story "Clark Kent, Strongman"

Characters Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page Varsity Vic filler

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