(June 1956)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- National Comics Publications, Inc.
- Brand:
- Superman DC National Comics
- Editing:
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)
- Format:
- Color; mostly Standard Golden Age, Silver Age, and Modern Age US size, Digest size (5" x 6.75") #491-503; mostly Saddle-Stitched, Squarebound #390, 416, 491-503
The Bird With Super Powers
Superboy / comic story / 12 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Alvin Schwartz
- Pencils:
- Curt Swan
- Inks:
- George Klein
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Superboy; Lana Lang; Professor Lang; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; kryptonite
- Synopsis:
- Professor Lang brings back a mynah bird that seems to have super-powers.
- Reprints:
-
in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #174 (June 1971) - in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G83 (May-June 1971)
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #4/1972 (19.Februar 1972)
-
Indexer Notes
When reprinted in Superboy #174, minor retitling as "The Bird With Super-Powers" (sticking in the hyphen, which is not here in the original). Inker id by Bob Hughes 8/2005 (previously John Fischetti); also given as Klein in the reprint in Superboy #174.
Pioneers of 1976
Binky / public service announcement / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Schiff
- Pencils:
- Win Mortimer
- Inks:
- Win Mortimer
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Gaspar Saladino
The Undersea School
Aquaman / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Ramona Fradon
- Inks:
- Ramona Fradon
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Synopsis:
- Aquaman runs a school for fish.
Indexer Notes
inker credit updated 8/04, not Charles Paris
[Uranium or gold?]
Shorty / comic story / 0.5 page
Credits
- Script:
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils:
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks:
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Henry Boltinoff
How To Read Animal Signs
text article / 2 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Miller [as Jeb Malloy]
- Letters:
- typeset
The Useless Arrows
Green Arrow / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Jack Miller?
- Pencils:
- George Papp
- Inks:
- George Papp
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Synopsis:
- Green Arrow's arrows are stolen so he has to use a bunch of arrows sent to the Arrow Candy Company as part of a kids' contest.
Indexer Notes
writer credit by Bob Hughes, 8/04
[We'll build a real big airplane]
Little Pete / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Pencils:
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks:
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- Henry Boltinoff
Content Information
- Genre:
- children; humor
Editing
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Bird With Super-Powers!
Superboy -
1.
The Bird With Super Powers
Superboy -
2.
Pioneers of 1976
Binky -
3.
The Undersea School
Aquaman -
4.
[Uranium or gold?]
Shorty -
5.
[You just struck out!]
Chip -
6.
How To Read Animal Signs
-
7.
The Useless Arrows
Green Arrow -
8.
[We'll build a real big airplane]
Little Pete
This issue was most recently modified by:
- R. J. Roper
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Allen Ross
- Bob Hughes
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Bob Cherry
- Gene Reed
- Lou Mougin
- Martin O'Hearn
- Michael Grabois
- Mike Tiefenbacher
- Pat Lang
- Mark Waid
- Sidne Gail Ward
- Jon Ingersoll
- Dan Kocher
- Bob Hughes
- Ted Watson
- Mark Gordon
- Mike Nielsen
- Ramon Schenk
- Dwayne Best
- Lou Mazzella
- R. J. Roper
- Ed Boner
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