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Issue Details

Issue #165
Published February 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (Managing Editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)

Cover Details

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #4

1 page Buzzy [public service page] public service announcement "Be Yourself -- Your Best Self!"

Genre TEEN
Script Jack Schiff
Notes inside front cover

12 page Superman story "The Man Who Conquered Superman"

Characters Krag the Mercurian (robot built by Superman); Crime Czar; Lois Lane; Perry White
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #4 (Winter 1962) [retitled there as "The Alien Who Conquered Superman"]

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Bank of the Future"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Fischetti

1 page Captain Tootsie advertisement

6 page Congo Bill story "Blind Man's Bluff"

Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Ed Smalle
Inks Ed Smalle
Notes writer credit by Craig Delich 7/05

1 page Varsity Vic filler

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

8 page Vigilante story "The Second Vigilante"

Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown

1 page Shorty filler

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

1 page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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