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Issue Details

Issue #77
Published July-August 1952
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

12 page Superman story "The Man Who Went To Krypton"

Characters Superman (Origin retold); Jor-El (Flashback); Lara (Flashback); Professor William Enders (Intro); Happy Murrel (Villain, Intro)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes This story redone in ACTION COMICS #281 (the Earth-One version).

12 page Superman story "The Greatest Pitcher In the World"

Characters V: The Professor (I), the Fixer (I)
Synopsis Superman loses his memory and becomes a baseball star.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes adapted from Superman radio show
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #36

2 page text story "Greatest Showman In the World"

Synopsis P. T. Barnum bio.
Letters Typeset

12 page Superman story "Superman Meets Pocahontas"

Characters Pocahontas
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Time-travel story.

Half page Professor Eureka filler "Dog Biscuits][First Line: I've got it at last!"

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Title and first line from Arthur Lortie, added August 2006. Sequence may be out of order.