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Issue Details

Issue #306
Published March 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Runaway Town!"

Characters Superboy, the Kents
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Letters Ira Schnapp

12 page Superboy story "The 5th Dimensional High-School!"

Characters Superboy, Mxyzptlk, Pete Ross, Lana Lang, the Kents, Chief Parker, Krypto
Synopsis Mxyzptlk plays pranks on Smallville in order to do well in his 5th dimensional practical joking class
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Letters Joe Letterese
Editing Mort Weisinger

Half page Casey the Cop filler "untitled"

Characters Casey the Cop
Synopsis When it begins to rain Casey pauses from chasing a crook to buy an umbrella.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

14 page Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes story "The Legion of Substitute Heroes"

Characters Legion of Super-Heroes [Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Bouncing Boy; Colossal Boy; Brainiac 5; Shrinking Violet]; Legion of Substitute Heroes [Polar Boy; Night Girl; Stone Boy; Fire Lad; Chlorophyll Kid]
Synopsis A group of rejected applicants band together as the Legion of Substitute Heroes and thwart the Plant Men's scheme to take over the Earth.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Letters Joe Letterese
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Intro & origin Legion of Substitute Heroes (Polar Boy, Night Girl, Stone Boy, Fire-Lad, Chlorophyll Kid); Polar Boy based on reader suggestion in #304's Smallville Mailbag
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #500; in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #1; in Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, The (DC, 1991 series) #2