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Issue Details

Issue #62
Published July 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

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).

12 page Superman story "There'll Always Be a Superman"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Captain Storme; Captain Zeb Storme; Villains: the Nazis.
Synopsis In the year 2143, Captain Storme recounts for his grandchildren what it was like in 1943, when the Nazis and other criminals ran rampant and the likes of Superman put a halt to their evil, greedy plans for loot and murder.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-23-08.
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005).

12 page The Vigilante story "The Crime Carnival"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks Charles Paris

5 page Three Aces story "The Loyal Traitor"

Characters Three Aces: Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill and Whistler Will.
Genre adventure; aviation
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Story cut and pasted from longer art (probably 6 pages). Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-23-08.

8 page Americommando story "The Blitz Barge"

Characters Americommando [Tex Thomson]
Genre war
Script Joseph Greene
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer credit from Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 6/05.

Half page Laffs filler

Genre gags
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes [check location] Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-23-08.

6 page Congo Bill story "Island of Peril"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Pencils Edwin Smalle
Inks Edwin Smalle

2 page text story "Murder in the Dark"

Genre crime
Script Will Holmes (signed)
Letters typeset

7 page Zatara story "The Money Buyer"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman
Notes Story cut and pasted from longer art (probably 9 pages).