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Issue Details

Issue #301
Published October 1962
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Lex Luthor and Clark Kent, Cell-Mates!"

Characters Superboy, Lex Luthor
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Letters Ira Schnapp

1 page public service announcement "Nature's Prize Pupil!"

Synopsis "...Nature's ways are amazing--and man is the most amazing because, by reading, observing and understanding the world about him, he constantly enriches himself!"
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Bob Brown
Inks Bob Brown
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes inside front cover

12 page Superboy story "Lex Luthor and Clark Kent: Cell-Mates!"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]; Luthor; Jonathan Kent; Krypto
Synopsis Lex Luthor frames Clark Kent after Clark's father, as a member of the parole board, refuses to parole Luthor. Clark ends up having to share a cell with Luthor.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Letters Joe Letterese
Notes Writer id by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in Superman Family (DC, 1974 series) #166 (August-September 1974)

Half page Homer filler "untitled"

Characters Homer
Synopsis Homer receives bills in the mail plus one from the mailman when his dog rips the mailman's trousers.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

12 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Secret Origin of Bouncing Boy"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Bouncing Boy; Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Shrinking Violet; Lightning Lad; Chameleon Boy; Saturn Girl; Triplicate Girl; Colossal Boy; Phantom Girl; Ultra Boy]
Synopsis Bouncing Boy tells a group of applicants how he got his powers and gained acceptance into the Legion.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Milton Snapinn
Notes Legion next appears in Superman 157.
Reprinted in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #180; in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #498; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #1