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Issue Details

Issue #45
Published December 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "A Trap for Superboy!"

Characters Superboy; Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "Incredible Superboy Auction"

Characters Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
Synopsis After the General Store burns down Pa must raise money and accidentally auctions off all of Clark's Superboy souvenirs.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #7; in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Bat Kite"

Genre superhero

8 page Superboy story "The Secret of the Super Charades"

Characters Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
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

2 page text story "The Man Who Owned a Volcano"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset

Half page Little Pete filler

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

7 page Superboy story "A Trap for Superboy!"

Characters Lana Lang; Jonathan Kent; kryptonite
Synopsis Lana Lang stumbles on a piece of kryptonite and tries to prove Clark is Superboy.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page public service announcement "How a Nation Is Born"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer ?
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes inside back cover