Issue Details

Issue	#27
Published	August-September 1953
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	44
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "Clark Kent, Runaway!"

Characters	Clark Kent
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Win Mortimer
Inks	Win Mortimer

10 page Superboy story "The Pied Piper of Smallville"

Characters	Lana Lang
Synopsis	A clarinet playing bum seems to have hypnotized the kids of Smallville into following him into the most dangerous places.
Genre	superhero
Script	Writer A [John Broome?]
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela
Notes	writer id by Martin O'Hearn

9 page Superboy story "The Movie Star of Tomorrow!"

Characters	Lana Lang, Jonathan Exo, Dirl Heston
Synopsis	Superboy is snatched into the future to make a movie of his life
Genre	superhero
Script	Edmond Hamilton
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Sy Barry
Notes	writer id by Martin O'Hearn, inker id by Bob Hughes 4/05 (formerly Stan Kaye)

1 page Little Pete filler

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

2 page text article "The Ship's Log"

Letters	typeset
Notes	text page, reprinted from ALL HANDS, Bureau of Naval Personnel

1 page Binky public service announcement "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

Genre	teen
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Win Mortimer
Inks	Win Mortimer
Letters	Ira Schnapp

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Practive Batting Range!"

9 page Superboy story "Clark Kent, Runaway!"

Characters	Lana Lang, Ma and Pa Kent (bald), Mrs Lang
Genre	superhero
Script	William Woolfolk
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela
Notes	writer id by Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted	in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #6; in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Jerry Jitterbug filler

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