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Issue Details

Issue #78
Published September-October 1952
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)
Notes art id by West Stephan 7/05

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes art id by West Stephan 7/05

12 page Superman story "The Beast From Krypton"

Characters Jor-El (Flashback); A snagriff (Villain, Intro, Death; a Kryptonian dragon)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

12 page Superman story "The Strong Man Club"

Characters An unnamed crime boss (Villain); The Atlas Club (Intro)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

3 page story "The Outwitted Outlaws"

Genre Western

2 page text story "The Man Who Was Kind To Animals"

Synopsis Henry Bergh bio (founder of ASPCA).
Script Don Queen
Letters Typeset

12 page Superman story "The Girls In Superman's Life"

Characters Lana Lang (1st app. in SUPERMAN; as an adult); Mrs. Lewis Lang; Superboy (Flashback); Lens Lewis (Villain, Intro)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn (1983)