Issue Details

Issue	#48
Published	April 1956
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "The Boy Without the Super Suit!"

Characters	Clark Kent [Superboy]
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Ray Burnley

8 page Superboy story "Dad Kent's Delusions"

Characters	Pa Kent; Kryptonite; "Blackmarket" Bolton
Synopsis	After an accident Pa forgets that Clark is Superboy and is convinced Superboy is impersonating his missing son.
Genre	superhero
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #327 [retitled as: "The Menace of Superboy's Father"]; in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Varsity Vic filler

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

8 page Superboy story "Lana Lang's Super Powers!"

Characters	Lana Lang; Alvin Lang (her brother)
Synopsis	Superboy must convince Lana that Martians have given her, Alvin, and Clark super powers.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Coleman
Pencils	John Sikela
Inks	John Sikela
Notes	Script credit from Martin O'Hearn
Reprinted	in Superboy Adventure Book 1957-8 (Atlas Publishing & Distributing Co. Ltd. (London), 1958 series) #1

1 page Shorty filler

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

2 page text article "How to Improve Your Roller Skating"

Script	Jack Miller [as John MacKenzie]
Letters	typeset
Notes	text page

8 page Superboy story "The Boy without a Super-Suit"

Characters	Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Grandpa Kent (off stage)
Synopsis	When Superboy is out of town, the people set up an elaborate scheme that requires all kids, except Clark, to dress in Superboy costumes.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Coleman
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye
Notes	Script credit from 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