Issue Details

Issue	#45
Published	December 1955
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "A Trap for Superboy!"

Characters	Superboy; Lana Lang
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "Incredible Superboy Auction"

Characters	Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
Synopsis	After the General Store burns down Pa must raise money and accidentally auctions off all of Clark's Superboy souvenirs.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela
Reprinted	in Century, The 100 Page Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1956 series) #7; in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Superboy's Workshop activity "Bat Kite"

Genre

superhero

8 page Superboy story "The Secret of the Super Charades"

Characters	Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Lana Lang
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela

1 page Varsity Vic filler

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

2 page text story "The Man Who Owned a Volcano"

Script	Jack Miller
Letters	typeset

Half page Little Pete filler

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

7 page Superboy story "A Trap for Superboy!"

Characters	Lana Lang; Jonathan Kent; kryptonite
Synopsis	Lana Lang stumbles on a piece of kryptonite and tries to prove Clark is Superboy.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela

1 page public service announcement "How a Nation Is Born"

Genre	fact
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Win Mortimer ?
Inks	Win Mortimer
Letters	Ira Schnapp
Notes	inside back cover