Issue Details

Issue	#42
Published	July 1955
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "The Gaucho of Smallville!"

Characters	Superboy
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "Superboy's Two Rivals"

Characters	Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Josh Rawlings; Peter Valadny; Midge Willis; Doc
Synopsis	Pa Kent mysteriously tries to hire the world's greatest detective and the world's strongest man.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela

1 page Binky public service announcement "Family Projects Can Be Fun!"

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

8 page Superboy story "Superboy, Stowaway!"

Characters	Lana Lang; Prof Lang
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	George Klein ?
Notes	Inks credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005; the original indexer credited John Fischetti.
Reprinted	in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

2 page Shorty filler

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

2 page text article "The Fastest Thing on Earth"

Script	Jack Miller [as Joe Mallon]
Letters	typeset

1 page Peg filler

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

8 page Superboy story "The Gaucho of Smallville!"

Synopsis	Superboy helps vindicate an Argentinian cowboy who moves to Smallville.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Weather Guide"

Genre

superhero