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Issue Details

Issue #171
Published August 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 - "The Secrets of Superman!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

1 page Superman [public service page] public service announcement "It's Smart to Check -- And Double Check!"

Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp

12 page Superman story "The Secrets of Superman"

Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes An interesting mistake slipped through on page 6, panel 5, where someone addresses Clark Kent as Superman, as noted by Bruce Bergeron through the GCD Errors list, June 2008.

6 page Congo Bill story "The Invaders of Indigo Island"

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

1 page Shorty filler

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

Hard-Luck Lou story

Genre gag

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Phantom Space Ship"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Fischetti

1 page Chief Hot Foot filler

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

8 page Vigilante story "A Cell for Vigilante"

Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown