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Issue Details

Issue #69
Published March-April 1954
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (Managing Editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)

Cover Details - "untitled"

Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

12 page Superman story "Jor-El's Last Will"

Characters Jor-El (flashback); Superman's Mountain Retreat; Perry White; Lois Lane; Superman (origin flashback); kryptonite
Synopsis Jor-El's last will shows that Earth is doomed to explode like Krypton did. The location of Superman's secret mountain retreat is discovered by the world.
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk ?
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes writer id by Bob Hughes

Half page Shorty filler "Just missed the train, eh?"

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

10 page Tomahawk story "The Junior Ghost Patrol"

Genre western; period
Script Dave Wood
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Reprinted in DC Special (DC, 1968 series) #6 (January-March 1970)

10 page Green Arrow story "The Matador with a Bow"

Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

5 page Two-Gun Percy story "Sudden Death Valley"

Genre western; humor
Pencils Jimmy Thompson
Inks Jimmy Thompson

8 page Danger Trail story "The Seven Hills of Rome"

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

2 page text article "Amazing Creatures of the Amazon"

Genre fact
Script Jack Miller [as Jack Mabley]
Letters typeset

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Start the Day Off Right"

Genre teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

12 page Batman story "The Man Who Wanted to Die With Batman"

Characters Commissioner Gordon; Tom Beckett; Mayor Sheppard
Synopsis A dying man vows to take Batman with him, because Batman sent his father to the electric chair.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Bob Kane (Batman & Robin figures); Lew Sayre Schwartz
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Credits by Craig Delich 6/04.