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Issue Details

Issue #73
Published June 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Some secondary sequences added by Ed Boner, July 2009.

Cover Details - "Superboy's Glass Prison!"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Superbaby
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "Superbaby in Scotland Yard"

Characters Superbaby; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
Synopsis Superbaby gets lost and ends up in London.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes An Untold Tale of Superboy. Inks credit from Bob Hughes, September 2005
Reprinted in Superboy Annual (DC, 1964 series) #1 (Summer 1964)

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll ad"

1 page public service announcement "Fred Finds a Way!"

Characters Fred; Jimmy; baseball coach
Synopsis Fred finds that there are other ways to participate in his favorite activity of baseball, despite physical limitations or being rejected for the team.
Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bernard Baily
Inks Bernard Baily
Letters Ira Schnapp

Half page Little Pete filler "Come on Pete, batter up."

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

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Super-Attractions"

7 page Superboy story "Superboy's Glass House"

Characters Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Mr. Electronics (introduction); Superboy robot; Superboy
Synopsis Superboy hides inside a glass jar to keep criminals from reading his mind.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Pops ad"

1 page Smallville Mailsack letters page

Letters typeset

1 page advertisement "Clyde Beatty and Cole Bros Circus at Palisades Amusement Park"

Characters Superman; Emmett Kelly

8 page Superboy story "The Dog-Catcher of Smallville!"

Characters Krypto; Superboy
Synopsis Krypto and Superboy turn the tables on a crooked dog catcher.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #15

Half page advertisement "Tootsie Roll Fudge ad"

Half page Jerry Jitterbug filler "There. How do you like it Mae?"

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