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