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Issue Details

Issue #40
Published April 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "The Magic Necklace!"

Characters Superboy; Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

1 page Peter Porkchops public service announcement "Don't Be Afraid to Speak Up!"

Genre funny animals
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Rube Grossman
Inks Rube Grossman
Letters Ira Schnapp

8 page Superboy story "The Boy of Clay!"

Characters Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Prof. Lang; kryptonite
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein?
Notes Inks credit from by Bob Hughes, July 2005; the original indexer credited John Fischetti?.

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "X-Ray Box"

Genre superhero

8 page Superboy story "The School for Geniuses!"

Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn

1 page Jerry Jitterbug filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page text article "Adventure in the Skies"

Script Jack Miller
Letters typeset

8 page Superboy story "The Magic Necklace!"

Characters Lana Lang; Prof Lang
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #4; in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Bebe filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff