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Issue Details

Issue #87
Published February 1954
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring?
Inks Stan Kaye*
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn

10 page Superman story "The Thing From 40,000 A.D."

Characters V: The Thing (I, D)
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye*
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #2 (1960); in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #196 (May 1967); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #42 (November 1983)

10 page Superman story "Superman's Super-Boners"

Characters I: Cyrus Walters, Prof. Vandyke
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

2 page text story "The Spear Hunters"

Script John Mapes
Letters typeset

10 page Superman story "The Prankster's Greatest Role"

Characters V: The Prankster
Genre superhero
Script Bill Woolfolk
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in DC 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1971 Series) #DC-7; in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #245 (December 1971-January 1972)