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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published May-June 1948
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger (actual)
Notes Assistant editor dates approximate. First post Siegel and Shuster issue.

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Assistant editor dates approximate. First post Siegel and Shuster issue.

Half page Little Pete filler "Meet the new delivery boy"

Genre children; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

12 page Superman story "Preview of Plunder"

Characters Superman; The Prankster; Lois Lane
Synopsis The Prankster places statues around town announcing his next crimes- and all the statues show Superman helping him!
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Stan Kaye?
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn. Inker id by Bob Hughes 12/04.

12 page Superman story "Superman Turns On the Heat"

Characters Superman; Hiram Brownlee
Synopsis A small town farmer asks Superman for a favor which results in unforseen concsequences
Genre superhero
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Ira Yarbrough
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn. Inker id by Bob Hughes 12/04

2 page text story "Open For Business"

Script Bill Carlton
Letters typeset

12 page Superman story "Superman In Valhalla"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Jack Allen; Bushy Barnes
Synopsis Superman goes searching for a lost movie company and ends up seemingly in Valhalla, home of the Norse gods.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Notes Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn.