Data courtesy of the Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license.

Issue Details

Issue #68
Published January-February 1954
Cover Price 0.15
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (Managing Editor), Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan (story editors)

Cover Details - "untitled"

Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

12 page Superman story "The Menace from the Stars!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White
Synopsis After attempting to destroy an asteroid with traces of Kryptonite, Superman loses his memory, and assumes he is dressed for a costume ball. He changes into the clothes in the cape pocket and heads to the Daily Planet, where he hopes he can find out his identity from a report on who wore what to the ball. Lois and Perry tell him he is Clark Kent and also that Superman has disappeared. When Clark later puts on the Superman suit to fool some bank robbers and finds that bullets bounce off him, he credits the suit for this ability. He breaks up the asteroid, he believes thanks to the Superman suit, but decides to reveal to the Daily Planet how he has been acting as Superman, but isn't the real Man of Steel. As he walks to the office in plainclothes he is hit by a truck and remembers that he really is Superman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn

10 page Tomahawk story "Nine Men against Fort Mohawk"

Genre western; period
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy

10 page Green Arrow story "Mystery of the Vanishing Villains"

Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

5 page Two-Gun Percy story "Rockin' the Ranchers"

Genre western; humor
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

8 page Danger Trail story "Riddle of the Portuguese Cat"

Genre spy
Script Dave Wood
Pencils Carmine Infantino?
Inks Howard Sherman
Notes Originally scheduled for Danger Trail #6, which was never published; pencil credit by Craig Delich 6/04.

12 page Batman story "The Secret Weapons of the Crimesmith"

Genre superhero
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Charles Paris
Notes Credits by Pat Lang and Craig Delich 6/04