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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published March-April 1948
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth, [Jack Schiff, Mort Weisinger]
Notes last Siegel and Shuster by-lines in this issue.

Cover Details

Characters Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes last Siegel and Shuster by-lines in this issue.

12 page Superman story "Mr. Mxyztplk Seeks a Wife"

Characters Villain: Mr. Mxyztplk; Intro: King (not Brpxz) and Princess of Mxyztplk's world; Lois Lane, Perry White
Synopsis Mxyztplk tries to get Lois Lane to marry him, so he won't have to marry the king's daughter.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Notes Mxyztplk's home called Topsy Turvy World, instead of Zrfff. Writer verified by Martin O'Hearn.

12 page Superman story "The Magnetic Mobster"

Characters Villain: Mr. Ohm (Intro), Lois Lane, Perry White
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Notes writer verified by Martin O'Hearn

2 page text story "Book Learning"

Script Cliff Rhodes
Letters typeset

12 page Superman story "The Man Who Bossed Superman"

Characters Superman; Pudge Purdy (villain, intro); Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Steve Brodie?
Notes Rehashed in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #130 and in Three-Dimension Adventures Superman #[nn].

Half page Chief Hot Foot filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)