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Issue Details

Issue #64
Published September 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Terrible Toyman"

Characters Superman; V: Toyman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Ed Dobrotka
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005).

12 page Superman story "The Terrible Toyman"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; V: The Toyman (1st appearance).
Synopsis The Toyman uses toys to commit two robberies, but after Superman foils his third robbery, the Toyman snatches Lois Lane and is about to kill her with poisonous dolls, when Superman discovers his hidden lair, frees Lois, and turns The Toyman over to the police.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005); in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn.

12 page Vigilante story "The Treasure of Dead Man's Key"

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

4 page Jitters Jeep filler

Genre gag
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr
Notes Writer and letterer credits added by Craig Delich 9-23-08.

2 page text story "Gift of Death"

Genre mystery
Script Eric Drake (signed)
Letters typeset

6 page Congo Bill story "The Inquisitive Ostrich"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Edwin Smalle?
Inks Edwin Smalle?

8 page Americommando story "Peter the Small"

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

9 page Zatara story "Quiet ... Thugs at Work"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman