Issue Details

Issue	#17
Published	February 1952
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Julius Schwartz (actual)

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Gil Kane
Inks	Gil Kane

8 page Captain Comet story "Beware the Synthetic Men"

Genre	superhero
Script	John Broome
Pencils	Murphy Anderson
Inks	Joe Giella
Notes	Cover story
Reprinted	in DC Super Stars (DC, 1976 series) #6 (August 1976)

8 page story "The Last Days of Earth"

Script	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Carmine Infantino
Inks	Joe Giella

8 page story "The Brain of Dr Royer"

Script	Manny Rubin
Pencils	Alex Toth
Inks	Bernard Sachs

1 page Science Facts filler "Why Summer is Hot and Winter is Cold"

Pencils	Mort Drucker
Inks	Mort Drucker

Half page Giants of the Telescope filler "Frederick Bessel"

Genre	Fact
Notes	Information for this sequence from Arthur Lortie, September 2008. Location of this sequence within this issue is unknown.
Reprinted	in Mystery in Space (DC, 1951 series) #49