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Issue Details

Issue #183
Published August 1953
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 Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

12 page Superman story "The Perfect Plot to Kill Superman"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

6 page Congo Bill story "The Stamp of Doom"

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

1 page Binky public service announcement "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

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

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Showboat of Space"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

Half page Professor Eureka filler "Bank Vault][First line: This new vault is ten inches thick"

Genre Gags
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Title, first line and reprint data from Arthur Lortie, added August 2006.
Reprinted in Action Comics (1938 series) #256 (DC, 1959); in Superman (1939 series) #176 (DC, 1965)

6 page Vigilante story "The Jinx Saddle"

Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown