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Issue Details

Issue #209
Published February 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (Managing Editor), Mort Weisinger (story editor); George Kashdan (story editor)

Cover Details

Characters Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

10 page Superboy story "Superboy Week"

Characters "Booster" Sims, Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page Binky public service announcement Special Christmas Quiz -- "Christmas in Many Lands!"

Synopsis Short information on global Christmas customs accompanied by illustrations.
Genre teen; fact
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira
Letters Ira Schnapp

6 page Aquaman story "The Island That Vanished"

Genre superhero
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon

Half page Chip filler "Say It with Flowers"

Genre Gags

Half page Varsity Vic filler "Double-dip chocolate soda"

Genre Gags
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page text article "Ships in Waiting"

Script Ted Sammon
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Colors Raymond Perry
Letters typeset
Notes text w/illo.
Reprinted ALL HANDS

8 page Green Arrow story "The Origin of Speedy"

Characters White Cloud, Chief Thunderhead, Speedy (origin), John and Anna Harper (flashback)
Synopsis Speedy reveals how his parents were killed and he was raised by Chief Thundercloud.
Genre superhero
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Reprinted in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #4; in Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #25 (October 1958) ?

1 page Supergram activity

Genre puzzle