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Issue Details

Issue #123
Published August 1958
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Girl of Steel!"

Characters Superman; Super-Girl
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #[nn]; in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

6 page Superman story "The Three Magic Wishes: The Girl of Steel (Part 1)"

Characters I: Super-Girl (D; a magically-created female partner for Superman)
Synopsis Superman briefly loses his powers
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Title given at end of part 1
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #6 (Winter 1963) [retitled there as "The First Supergirl!"]; in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #217 (June-July 1969) [retitled there as "The First Supergirl!" and edited]; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #[nn]; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #[nn]; in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

10 page Superman story "The Three Magic Wishes: The Lost Super-Powers (Part 2)"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #[nn]; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #[nn]; in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page text story "Gag Bag"

Letters typeset

10 page Superman story "The Three Magic Wishes: Superman's Return to Krypton (Part 3)"

Characters Jor-El, Lara; Villain: Kil-Lor (Intro, Dies); Krypton
Synopsis Superman time travels back to Krypton and meets his parents for the first time, and arranges their betrothal!
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Dick Sprang
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Title given at end of part 1
Reprinted in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #[nn]; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #[nn]; in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #8 (Winter 1963-1964) [retitled there as "Krypton's First Superman"]; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1