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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published December 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth, [Mort Weisinger, Murray Bolitnoff (assistants)]

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005).

13 page Superman story "A Goof Named Tiny Rufe"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Tiny Rufe [I]; Maisie Day (I); Al Hatt (I); Whitney Ellsworth, Murray Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger (cameos).
Synopsis In this parody of the famed L'il Abner comic strip by Al Capp, cartoonist Al Hatt gets his inspiration from real hillbillies and he doesn't want them to get married.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005).

1 page Supermen of the U.S. Army filler "Capt. Hewitt T. (Shorty) Wheless"

Characters Captain Hewitt T. Wheless
Genre fact
Pencils Cliff Young?
Inks Cliff Young?

12 page Vigilante story "Bullets for Breakfast"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre superhero
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)
Inks George Roussos

6 page Three Aces story "Aces of Fire"

Characters Three Aces: Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill and Whistler Will.
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-15-08.

2 page text story "The Clever Chinese"

Genre adventure
Script Paul Evans (signed)
Letters typeset

8 page Americommandos story "Escape from the Scaffold"

Characters Americommando [Tex Thomson]; Fatman [Bob Daley].
Genre war
Script Joseph Greene
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer per Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 5/05.

6 page Congo Bill story "A Modern Robinson Crusoe"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Pencils Edwin Smalle?
Inks Edwin Smalle?

9 page Zatara story "Crimes by Coincidence"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman