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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published April-May 1952
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)

Cover Details - "The Death of Young Clark Kent!"

Characters Superboy; Ma and Pa Kent
Genre superhero
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Be Sure of Your Facts!"

Genre teen; humor
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Gaspar Saladino
Notes inside front cover

11 page Superboy story "The Death of Young Clark Kent!"

Characters Ma and Pa Kent
Synopsis The people of Smallville are horrified when Clark is eaten by a slime monster from the center of the Earth.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Notes inker id by Bob Hughes 7/05

Half page Casey the Cop filler

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

9 page Superboy story "The Riddle of the Rarest Animals"

Characters Lana Lang (red hair), Ma Kent, Prof Tom Lang, Mrs Lang, Basil Jennings
Synopsis The Langs invite Clark to go to Africa with them.
Genre superhero
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Notes Prof Lang's first name changed from John. Inker id by Bob Hughes 7/05

1 page activity "How to Make It!"

2 page text article "Our Gifted Children"

Letters typeset
Notes text page

1 page Varsity Vic filler

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

9 page Superboy story "The School Without a Teacher!"

Synopsis All of Smallville's teachers are quaranteened so Superboy has to take their places.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Fischetti
Notes inker id by Bob Hughes, writer id by Martin O'Hearn