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Issue Details

Issue	#55
Published	March 1957
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Robert Kanigher (actual)
Notes	First Joe Kubert cover on Star Spangled War Stories. Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

Cover Details - "The Talking Helmet!"

Genre	War
Pencils	Joe Kubert
Inks	Joe Kubert
Notes	First Joe Kubert cover on Star Spangled War Stories. Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page story "The Burning Desert"

Genre	War
Script	Robert Bernstein
Pencils	Russ Heath
Inks	Russ Heath
Notes	Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page story "The Walking Snowbird"

Genre	War
Script	Bob Haney
Pencils	Joe Kubert
Inks	Joe Kubert
Notes	Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page story "Back Street Battle"

Genre	War
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Joe Giella
Notes	Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page The Talking Helmet story "Diary of a Tin Pot"

Genre	War
Script	Robert Kanigher
Pencils	Jerry Grandenetti
Inks	Jerry Grandenetti
Notes	Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

1 page filler "First in War..."

Genre	War
Script	Morris Waldinger
Pencils	Morris Waldinger
Inks	Tom Nicolisi