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