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Issue Details

Issue #216
Published May 1956
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger (assistant); George Kashdan (assistant)

Cover Details - "The Super-Menace of Metropolis"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

12 page Superman story "The Super-Menace of Metropolis"

Characters Superman; Super-Menace (intro); Jor-El (flashback)
Synopsis When Metropolis is attacked by alien weapons, Superman discovers they were built long ago by Jor-El.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #6 (January 1965) [retitled there as "The Hyper-Menace from Krypton"]

1 page Superman public service announcement "Get Your Ticket to the Treasury of Books"

Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

6 page Congo Bill story "The Jungle of Doom"

Characters Congo Bill; Janu the Jungle Boy; Tod Craven; Jim Craven; Chota the Chimp
Genre jungle
Pencils Ed Smalle
Inks Ed Smalle

Half page Professor Eureka filler "Boring Lecture][First Line: Today's lecture will be on ..."

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes Title, first line and reprint data from Arthur Lortie, added August 2006.
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (1938 series) #294 (DC, 1962)

2 page text story "Mystery of the Ghost Bomb"

Script Jack Miller [as John MacKenzie]
Letters Typeset

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Space Safari"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow; Brent Wood
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

1 page Shorty filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff