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Issue Details

Issue #72
Published September-October 1951
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

12 page Superman story "The Unfunny Prankster"

Characters The Prankster (Villain); The Financier [Van Retz] (Intro, Villain)
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

12 page Superman story "The Private Life of Perry White"

Characters Perry White (Origin details); Alice White (Perry's wife, Intro); Will White (Perry's son, Intro); Superboy (in flashback to ADVENTURE COMICS #?)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Al Plastino?
Inks Al Plastino?

2 page text story "The Man Who Knew All the Words"

Script R. Fairbanks
Letters Typeset
Notes Noah Webster bio

13 page Superman story "The Flight of the Failures"

Characters Harvey Follensby (Intro); Manton (Intro); Miss Starr (Intro); Evans (Intro)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Win Mortimer?
Inks Stan Kaye