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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published March-April 1944
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "Palace of Perilous Play; Dear Diary; When Giants Meet; Robbers' Roost"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks George Roussos?
Notes Inker identification by Bob Hughes (December, 2004).
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

12 page Superman story "The Palace of Perilous Play!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Lottie Lovemore; The Toyman [Winslow Schott](villain)
Synopsis Superman struggles with the schemes of the terrible Toyman, who is out to design coin machines that will make him rich and devices that will give him revenge on the Man of Tomorrow.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn and inker identification by Bob Hughes.
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

12 page Superman story "When Giants Meet!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Paul Bunyan (introduction, meets Superman in a fantasy tale); Babe (Bunyan's ox)
Synopsis While up in the big north woods in search of background material for articles on the lumbering industry, Clark and Lois listen to an entertaining tale about the time Superman and Paul Bunyan actually met. But when one of the listeners refuses to believe that Superman is real, the Man of Steel puts in an appearance when the cabin everyone is in is hit by lightning.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Proto-imaginary story. Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn and inker identification by Bob Hughes (December, 2004).
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

Half page Clancy the Cop filler

Characters Clancey
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes This filler is NOT found in the Archive.

11 page Superman story "Robbers' Roost!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Hiram Pardee (introduction); Percival Lister (villain); Arch Angler (villain, introduction); Fingers Falvey (villain); Timothy (villain); Porky (villain)
Synopsis Superman has to help a gawky young fellow from a country farm, who arrives in Metropolis with an inherited fortune. The young man had promised his late uncle that he'd continue to take care of pigeons his uncle had raised, not knowing that a group of criminals are using those pigeons to move stolen gems from a jewelry heist.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn and inker identification by Bob Hughes (December, 2004).
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

1 page Private Pete filler "Join the Band"

Characters Private Pete
Genre humor; military
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes This filler is NOT found in the Archive.

2 page none text story "The Artistic Touch"

Script Ed Selby (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes This text story is NOT found in the Archive.

12 page Superman story "Dear Diary!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Randall Rocksell; Goldie Gates (villain, introduction)
Synopsis The notorious Goldie Gates convinces Randall Rocksell that if he will invest huge sums of money with him, that Rocksell will make a half-million a day on his investment. However, Superman discovers that Rocksell is being paid dividends with his own money and Gates is is perilously close to gaining the power of attorney over Rocksell's money and property.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn and inker identification by Bob Hughes (December, 2004). Superman has a blue "S" on cape.
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)