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Issue Details

Issue #144
Published September 1949
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes Art id by Bob Hughes 8/05.

Cover Details

Characters Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Notes Art id by Bob Hughes 8/05.

10 page Superboy story "The Way to Stop Superboy"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Silver Smith.
Synopsis Silver Smith tries to make Superboy afraid to use his powers.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Sikela ?
Inks Ed Dobrotka ?

8 page Green Arrow story "King of Counterfeits"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy West]; The Phoney Crook (villain, only appearance).
Synopsis The Phoney Crook steals only counterfeits.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp

6 page The Shining Knight story "Sir Butch Goes into Business"

Characters Shining Knight [Sir Justin]; Sir Butch.
Synopsis Butch goes into business selling soap to the people of Camelot.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Notes Story takes place in Camelot.

6 page Aquaman story "A Martian Adventure"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Thungar of the Valley.
Synopsis Aquaman visits a hidden valley on Earth with canals inspired by those of Mars.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

8 page Johnny Quick story "The Day That Was Five Years Long"

Characters Johnny Quick; Joe Everett.
Synopsis Joe Everett spent five years in jail for a crime he did not commit, so Johnny Quick helps him live those entire five years in one day.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Dan Barry (signed)
Inks Dan Barry (signed)
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #10; in Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #[nn]