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Issue Details

Issue #308
Published May 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Super-Menace of Smallville!"

Characters Superboy; Chief Parker; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; the Kents
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Letters Joe Letterese

1 page public service announcement "Countdown on Excellence"

Characters Jerry; Jerry's father
Synopsis Jerry gets a lecture from his father on the importance of doing every job right.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Printed in black-and-white on inside front cover.

14 page Superboy story "The Super-Menace of Smallville!"

Characters Superboy; Luthor; the Kents; Lana Lang; Pete Ross; Chief Parker
Synopsis Luthor plagues Smallville with a Red Kryptonite palgue.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Letters Milton Snapinn; Joe Letterese
Editing Mort Weisinger

Half page Tricksy filler

Characters Tricksy
Synopsis Tricksy, a high-wire artist, can't find an empty bunk, so he goes to sleep on the high wire.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

10 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Return of Lightning Lad!"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Lightning Lass [as Lightning Lad]; Bouncing Boy; Chameleon Boy; Sun Boy; Mon-El; Lightning Lad (in flashback and lying in state); Shrinking Violet; Supergirl; Brainiac 5]; Proty
Synopsis Lightning Lad's sister impersonates her dead brother and joins the Legion.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Joe Letterese
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Intro Proty, Lightning Lass; Lightning Beasts of Korball app; Lightning Lad's body app.
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #403; in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #500; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #2