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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published January 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth
Notes Issue reprinted as Special Edition #1 for U.S. Navy with simplified text.

Cover Details

Characters Superman; Mr. Mxyztplk.
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Issue reprinted as Special Edition #1 for U.S. Navy with simplified text.
Reprinted in Special Edition [U.S. Navy] (DC, 1944 series) #1; in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

11 page Superman story "Mr. Mxyztplk Returns"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; V: Mr. Mxyztplk.
Synopsis When unusual and weird things begin affecting Clark Kent, there is only one answer for it: that imp from another dimension has returned, and that means more headaches for the Man of Tomorrow!
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils Ira Yarbrough (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks Ira Yarbrough (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Mr. Mxyztplk first appeared in Superman #30. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-21-07.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #272 (February 1974); in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

6 page Congo Bill story "The Riddle of the Reservoir"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Script Writer "D"
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

2 page Grandpa Peters filler

Characters Grandpa Peters
Genre gag
Script Tom McNamara (signed as Lefty O'Grady)
Pencils Tom McNamara (signed as Lefty O'Grady)
Inks Tom McNamara (signed as Lefty O'Grady)
Letters Tom McNamara
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 10-23-08.

10 page The Vigilante story "The Pillage of the Parthenon"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre western
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton)

Half page Casey the Cop filler

Characters Casey the Cop
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes 1st Casey the Cop. Previous fillers titled Clancy the Cop. Writer credit added by Craig Delich 10-21-07.

2 page text story "Escape by Night"

Genre adventure
Script Jack Miller (signed as Jesse Merlan)
Letters typeset

5 page Hayfoot Henry filler "The Hair that Wasn't There"

Characters Hayfoot Henry
Genre detective; humor
Pencils Thurston Harper
Inks Thurston Harper
Notes Art credits by Jerry Bails. Writer credit revised from Alvin Schwartz to ? by Craig Delich 10-23-08. According to the Who's Who, Schwartz wrote this strip from 1946-48.

8 page Zatara story "Tumbling Timber"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Pencils William F. White
Inks William F. White