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Issue Details

Issue #49
Published June 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "Metallo of Krypton!"

Characters Metallo of Krypton; Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "The Loneliest Boy in Town"

Characters Freddy Parker; Joe Parker
Synopsis Freddy Parker is ashamed of his father because he's just a doorman.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Story retold in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #88.

1 page Peg filler

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

8 page Superboy story "Lana Lang's Secret Identity"

Characters Lana Lang; Mrs Lang
Synopsis When Lana wins a contest and tries to remain anonymous, Clark turns the tables on her and tries to prove she is Miss Glow.
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

2 page text article "Shooting the Stars"

Script Jack Miller [as James MacKay]
Letters typeset
Notes text page

Half page Colonel Cornwall filler

Notes not the usual artist of the non-Boltinoff fillers.

8 page Superboy story "Metallo of Krypton"

Characters Metallo; kryptonite
Synopsis Superboy is trapped on an asteroid by kryptonite dust and discovers a robot there that was built on Krypton.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Story retold in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #276