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Issue Details

Issue #121
Published October 1947
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes art id by Bob Hughes 7/07

Cover Details

Characters Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Wenzel
Inks Al Wenzel
Notes art id by Bob Hughes 7/07

10 page Superboy story "The Great Hobby Contest"

Characters Superboy; Orville Orville
Synopsis Orville Orville tries to win every division of the hobby contest, with money.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Al Wenzel
Inks George Roussos
Notes art id by Bob Hughes 7/07. Clark Kent lives in "a small town". Story also takes place after World War II.

7 page Aquaman story "Shades of John Paul Jones"

Characters Aquaman; John Paul Jones
Synopsis Aquaman time travels to the American revolution.
Genre superhero
Script George Kashdan
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly
Notes in the American Revolution; maybe a dream

8 page Green Arrow story "Menace of the Crimson Arrows"

Characters Green Arrow; Speedy; Crimson Arrow Gang
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

7 page Shining Knight story "The Saga of a Sword"

Genre superhero
Pencils Chuck Winter
Inks Chuck Winter
Notes narrated by Excalibur

9 page Johnny Quick story "The 9th Wonder of the World!"

Characters Johnny Quick [Johnny Chambers]; Tubby Watts; Pal the Wonder Dog; Mel Mitchum
Synopsis After a fire destroys the entire print run of the hit comic, 8th Wonder, Johnny Quick redraws, inks, letters, engraves the plates, prints the entire comic using a handpress and then paints the colors into every single copy by hand in one night.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Mort Meskin
Inks George Roussos
Reprinted in The Flash (DC, 1959 series) #232 (March-April 1975)