Issue Details

Issue	#243
Published	December 1957
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (Managing Editor), Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan (story editors)

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye

12 page Superboy story "The Super-Toys from Krypton"

Characters	Jor-El; Lara (flashback); Krypton (flashback); Lana Lang; kryptonite
Synopsis	A box of toys from Krypton crashes on Earth and causes all sorts of trouble for Superboy.
Genre	superhero
Script	Ed Hamilton ?
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye
Notes	Writer id by Bob Hughes 3/09.

1 page Superman promo (ad from the publisher) "The One and Only Superman"

Characters	Superman; Batman; Robin; Jimmy Olsen
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Wayne Boring; Curt Swan; Win Mortimer
Inks	Stan Kaye; Win Mortimer
Notes	"World's Finest, Superman, Jimmy Olsen, Action Comics for Nov or Dec"

6 page Aquaman story "Aquaman's Amazing Bets"

Characters	Topo
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Ramona Fradon
Inks	Ramona Fradon

1 page text article "The First Gentleman Champion"

Letters	typeset
Notes	biography of Gentleman Jim Corbett

Half page Tricksy filler "My Act"

Genre	gag
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

6 page Green Arrow story "The Million-Dollar Arrows"

Characters	Arrow-Copter (1st?)
Genre	superhero
Pencils	George Papp
Inks	George Papp
Reprinted	In Big Boy (Artima, 1956 series) #20 May 1958

1 page public service announcement "The Trick is to Treat All the World's Children!"

Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Ruben Moreira
Inks	Ruben Moreira
Letters	Ira Schnapp