(December 1952)
DC,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1952-10-29
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Comics Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- Whitney Ellsworth (credited) (editor); Julius Schwartz (credited) (actual editor)
Issue Notes
Editor credit confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 1952/08/27, provided by DC Comics. On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Captain Comet / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Because we can't tell which one of you is the real Captain Comet, we must destroy you both!
- Genre
- superhero; science fiction
Indexer Notes
Cover is related to The Counterfeit Captain Comet! story insde.
Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop
Novelty Mart / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Buy now at our low low prices!
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Counterfeit Captain Comet!
Captain Comet / comic story / 7.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Not even you can adapt to this deadly world, Captain Comet!
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
Indexer Notes
Title, pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 1952/08/27, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Dubble Bubble Gum / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ray Thompson (signed as
Ray T.) - Inks
- Ray Thompson (signed as Ray T.)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Whoopee! This is the real wild west!
- Genre
- children
- Characters
- Pud
Editorial Advisory Board
promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Includes a plug for A Date with Judy on ABC.
Superman Shows How UNICEF Spells Help for the Children of the World!
Superman / public service announcement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Gosh, we saw nearly everything on all 38 floors of the United Nations building.
- Genre
- advocacy; superhero
- Characters
- Lee; Superman
- Synopsis
- Superman convinces a group of children to contribute their movie money to UNICEF.
Indexer Notes
The PSA is produced in sequential-arts comics format.
The Farmers from Space!
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Startled astronomers had detected a strange destructive plant growing on Mars!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Doctor Wesley Sampson; Mary Sampson; Dis Kor; Ren Tluke
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 1952/08/27, provided by DC Comics.
[Bacteria, Nebula, Gravity]
Scientific Word Origins... / cartoon / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The tiny staff-shaped objects that were first observed through a microscope were called bacteria...
- Genre
- non-fiction; math & science
- Reprints
-
in Challengers of the Unknown (DC, 1958 series) #9 (August-September 1959) -
in Challengers of the Unknown (Thorpe & Porter, 1960 series) #3 ([1960])
-
[no title indexed]
Smith Brothers Cough Drops / advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hurry! Get your own gold lettered personalized wallet!
Intelligent Animals
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Morris Waldinger ?
- Pencils
- Mort Drucker ?; Morris Waldinger ?
- Inks
- Mort Drucker ?; Morris Waldinger ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Morris Waldinger
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Allotting 100 points for each attribute, the chimpanzee scored 925--the highest rating...
- Genre
- non-fiction; animal
- Synopsis
- information on the comparative intelligence of the chimpanzee, elephant, grizzly bear, and other animals
- Reprints
- in The Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog (DC, 1952 series) #36 (November-December 1957)
- in My Greatest Adventure (DC, 1955 series) #61 (November 1961)
- in Bomba the Jungle Boy (DC, 1967 series) #3 (January-February 1968)
- in Tarzan (DC, 1972 series) #224 (October 1973) [feature added] which is reprinted
-
in The Case of the Twice-Told Tale!
comic story / 3.67 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Finally finished--my first novel! I'll rush it to the publisher at once!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- George Mitchell; Mr. Blake; Richard Mills; Benjamin Franklin (cameo)
- Synopsis
- How could George Mitchell write a novel that turned out to be a word-for-word copy of a book he had never seen that was written more than 100 years in the past?
- Reprints
-
in Superman Presents Tip Top Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 series) #11 ([March 1966]) - in From beyond the Unknown (DC, 1969 series) #7 (October-November 1970) [slightly re-titled]
-
in Aquaman (Arédit-Artima, 1970 series) #12 (juin 1972) -
in Die Grüne Laterne (BSV - Williams, 1975 series) #3 (Dezember 1975)
-
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 1952/08/27, provided by DC Comics.
Your Hair's Best Friend
Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 0.33 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I wish he'd get interested in a girl and start using Wildroot Cream-Oil!
Indexer Notes
Advertisement that includes a gag cartoon.
[no title indexed]
Spotlight on Science / text article / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- When men of science talk about atoms they reel off sets of figures that put our national debt to shame!
Indexer Notes
Features four text articles:
1. Atom Count
2. Is the Earth Round?
3. Color Blindness
4. Visible Stars
The Last Humans!
comic story / 6 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's a human all right--two of them! Shoot them down!
- Genre
- science fiction
- Characters
- Lokri; Trent; Doctor Jaims
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records dated 1952/08/27, provided by DC Comics.
Draw Me!
Art Instruction, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Try for a free $280 art course!
[no title indexed]
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The famous 1000-shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine is on display at your dealers now and is ready for Christmas!
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Because we can't tell which one of you is the real Captain Comet, we must destroy you both!"]
Captain Comet -
1.
Uncle Bernie's Fun Shop
Novelty Mart -
2.
The Counterfeit Captain Comet!
Captain Comet -
3.
Boys! Girls! Tune in Tootsie Hippodrome
Tootsie Roll -
4.
["Whoopee! This is the real wild west!"]
Dubble Bubble Gum -
5.
Editorial Advisory Board
-
6.
Superman Shows How UNICEF Spells Help for the Children of the World!
Superman -
7.
The Farmers from Space!
-
8.
[Bacteria, Nebula, Gravity]
Scientific Word Origins... -
9.
["Hurry! Get your own gold lettered personalized wallet!"]
Smith Brothers Cough Drops -
10.
Intelligent Animals
-
11.
The Case of the Twice-Told Tale!
-
12.
Your Hair's Best Friend
Wildroot Cream-Oil -
13.
["When men of science talk about atoms they reel off sets of figures that put our national debt to shame!"]
Spotlight on Science -
14.
Now More Than Ever-
The Adventures of Bob Hope -
15.
The Last Humans!
-
16.
Draw Me!
Art Instruction, Inc. -
17.
["The famous 1000-shot Red Ryder Cowboy Carbine is on display at your dealers now and is ready for Christmas!"]
Daisy Air Rifles / Daisy B-B Guns -
18.
Biggest Stomper on the Block!
Thom McAn
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Arthur Lortie
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Brian Stewart
- Jim Van Dore
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.