(June 1956)

DC, 1949 Series
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Volume:
?
Price:
0.10 USD
Pages:
36
Indicia frequency:
?
Indicia Publisher:
?
Brand:
Superman DC National Comics
Editing:
Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Mort Weisinger (actual editor)
Format:
Color; Standard Golden, Silver, and Modern Age US; Saddle-Stitched (Squarebound #129, 138, 147, 156, 165, 185, 202. 205, 208); Newsprint; was ongoing series

Metallo of Krypton! (Table of Contents)

Superboy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
Curt Swan
Inks:
Stan Kaye
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Metallo of Krypton; Superboy

The Loneliest Boy in Town (Table of Contents)

Superboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Otto Binder
Pencils:
John Sikela
Inks:
John Sikela
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Freddy Parker; Joe Parker
Synopsis:
Freddy Parker is ashamed of his father because he's just a doorman.

Indexer Notes

Story retold in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #88.


[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Peg / filler / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
Henry Boltinoff
Pencils:
Henry Boltinoff
Inks:
Henry Boltinoff
Colors:
?
Letters:
Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:
gag

Lana Lang's Secret Identity (Table of Contents)

Superboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jerry Coleman
Pencils:
John Sikela
Inks:
John Sikela
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Lana Lang; Mrs Lang
Synopsis:
When Lana wins a contest and tries to remain anonymous, Clark turns the tables on her and tries to prove she is Miss Glow.
Reprints:

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Martin O'Hearn


Shooting the Stars (Table of Contents)

text article / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jack Miller [as James MacKay]
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

text page


[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Colonel Cornwall / filler / 0.66 page (report information)

Credits

Script:
?
Pencils:
?
Inks:
?
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Indexer Notes

not the usual artist of the non-Boltinoff fillers.


Metallo of Krypton (Table of Contents)

Superboy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:
Jerry Coleman
Pencils:
John Sikela
Inks:
John Sikela
Colors:
?
Letters:
?

Content Information

Genre:
superhero
Characters:
Metallo; kryptonite
Synopsis:
Superboy is trapped on an asteroid by kryptonite dust and discovers a robot there that was built on Krypton.

Indexer Notes

Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Story retold in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #276


Editing

Table of Contents

  1. 1. The Loneliest Boy in Town
    Superboy
  2. 2. [no title indexed]
    Peg
  3. 3. Lana Lang's Secret Identity
    Superboy
  4. 4. Shooting the Stars
  5. 5. [no title indexed]
    Colonel Cornwall
  6. 6. Metallo of Krypton
    Superboy
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