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Issue Details

Issue #247
Published December 1958
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Return of Superman's Lost Parents!"

Characters Superman; Cedric Carson [as Jonathan Kent]; Millicent Carson [as Martha Kent]
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

12 page Superman story "Superman's Lost Parents!"

Characters Superman; Cedric Carson [as Jonathan Kent] (villain); Millicent Carson [as Martha Kent] (villain); Jor-El (statue); Lara (statue); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Fortress of Solitude; Superboy (statue, image); Lois Lane; Superman robots; Lana Lang (image); Professor Lang (image); kryptonite
Synopsis Ma and Pa Kent seemingly arrive in the present in a time bubble, and Superman is so happy to see them that he shows them all the secrets of his adult life. But Ma and Pa turn out to be con artists who blackmail Superman with the knowledge of his double identity secret.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #193 (January-February 1967); in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Tommy Tomorrow, Space Convict X-146-93"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow; The Brain (villain); Planeteers
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Letters typeset

1 page Shorty filler

Script Henry Boltinoff ?
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

7 page Congo Bill story "The Riddle of the Super-Zoo!"

Characters Congo Bill; Janu; Jungle Joe (villain)
Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Notes strip continued as Congorilla in the next issue.
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #195 (August 1970)