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Issue Details

Issue #54
Published January 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "The Silent Superboy"

Characters Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Inks credit from World's Finest Guy, 21 January 2009

8 page Superboy story "Superboy's Substitute Suits"

Characters Doc Ellison; Martha Kent; Superboy
Synopsis Doc Ellison steals Superboy's costume and is selling criminals invulnerable copies of it. Meanwhile Superboy is wearing a costume made of regular cloth.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein ?
Notes Inks credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Famous Books Quiz"

Genre teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Letters Ira Schnapp

1 page Shorty filler

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

8 page Superboy story "The Sixth Clark Kent"

Characters Superboy; Martha Kent; Lana Lang
Synopsis Lawyers are searching for the heir to Phineas Baker's fortune- someone named "Clark Kent".
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Giunta ?
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Inks credit from Bob Hughes, March 2009.
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #336

1 page Little Imps filler

Half page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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

1 page text article "Partners in Peril"

Letters typeset
Notes text page

8 page Superboy story "The Silent Superboy"

Characters Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang; kryptonite; Superboy
Synopsis A new type of H-bomb has sensitized the atmosphere to Superboy's voice so he cannot speak aloud for 24 hours.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela