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Issue Details

Issue #223
Published December 1956
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan (assistants)

Cover Details - "The First Superman of Krypton!"

Characters Superman; Jor-El
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn

12 page Superman story "The First Superman of Krypton"

Characters Superman (origin); Jor-El (flashback); Lora [aka Lara] (flashback); Val Arn (villain, flashback); Khai Zor (villain, flashback)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Is script by Edmond Hamilton or Jerry Coleman? (see 80 Page Giant Magazine #G31 for the conflicting Coleman credit.)
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #193 (January-February 1967); in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #G31; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #1/1970

Half page Shorty filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

Half page Professor Eureka filler "Cab Ride][First Line: To the Hotel Westmore, driver."

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Title, first line and reprint data from Arthur Lortie, added August 2006.
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #30

6 page Congo Bill story "Janu, Jungle God"

Characters Congo Bill; Janu
Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

1 page public service announcement "Gifts to the United Nations"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff

2 page text article "How To Start A Stamp Collection"

Genre fact
Script Jack Miller [as Joe Mallon]
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Amazing Future Toys"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow; Sparky; Brent Wood; Nova Norton (villain)
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #185 (June 1969)