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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