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Issue Details

Issue #57
Published February 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Crime's Comedy King"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Prankster (Villain)
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Story title added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005); in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn.

13 page Superman story "Crime's Comedy King"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; The Prankster (villain).
Synopsis The Prankster creates an organization called the Appreciation Society as a front for robberies, even claiming that he knows the secret to Superman's invulnerability.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Sikela's name on a sign on page 8. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 2008-09-21.
Reprinted In Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains (DC, 1972 series) #9 (August-September 1973); in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005).

1 page Supermen of the U.S. Army filler "Sgt. Meyer Levin"

Characters Sgt. Meyer Levin
Genre fact
Pencils Cliff Young?
Inks Cliff Young?

Half page Chief Hot Foot filler

Characters Chief Hot Foot
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.

12 page The Vigilante story "The Feud of the Rimfire Ridge"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed)
Inks Charles Paris
Letters Charles Paris?
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Characters Jerry
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.

6 page Three Aces story "Veiled Desert Bandits"

Characters Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will]
Genre adventure; aviation
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.

Half page Clancy the Cop filler

Characters Clancy
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.

8 page Americommandos story "The Little One"

Characters Americommando [Tex Thomson]
Genre war
Script Jospeh Greene
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer per Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 5/05.

2 page text story "Naval Engagement"

Genre adventure
Script Ed Tarr (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Congo Bill story "The Galloping Ghosts"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Pencils John Daly?
Inks John Daly?

Half page Gags filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08.

9 page Zatara story "Treasure Trove"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman