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Issue Details

Issue #222
Published November 1956
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger (assistant); George Kashdan (assistant)

Cover Details - "What Happens When a Cosmic Accident Creates a Duplicate Superman?"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

9 page Superman story "The Duplicate Superman"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Superman-T; Superman-X; Kryptonite
Synopsis Exposure to the military's new secret weapon, the Q-Bomb splits Superman into two almost equal selves. One has x-ray vision, the other telescopic, but otherwise they're equal.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Proto-red Kryptonite story.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #204 (February 1968)

1 page Binky public service announcement "Special Election Exhibit"

Genre teen; humor
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

Half page Shorty filler

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

5 page Congo Bill story "World's Most Amazing Animals"

Characters Congo Bill; Janu the Jungle Boy
Synopsis Congo Bill has to capture a white lion, a tri-colored zebra and a flying ostrich.
Genre jungle
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

2 page text story "Terror on the Mountain Peak"

Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset

5 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Creature from Outer Space"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow; Brent Wood
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney