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Issue Details

Issue #47
Published April 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth, [Mort Weisinger, Murray Bolitnoff (assistants)]

Cover Details - "Powerstone"

Characters Superman; Lex Luthor (1st cover appearance).
Genre superhero
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #3 (2001); in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn.

13 page Superman story "Powerstone"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Luthor; Perry White; Lois Lane; Brett Calhoun; Powerstone (I).
Synopsis Luthor gains super strength in order to battle Superman in hand-to-hand combat after Brett Calhoun announces that he is going to give away half of his fortune [$3 million] to any man who can prove he is the richest man in Metropolis.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Story continued in part in Superman #17. Modified synopsis added by Craig Delich 9-6-08.
Reprinted In Superman (DC, 1939 series) #252 (June 1972); in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #3 (2001).

12 page Vigilante story "The Green Cowled Menace"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]; V: Scorpion (I).
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Mort Meskin

2 page Busy Bill the Bill Collector filler

Characters Busy Bill
Genre gag

6 page Three Aces story "Go to War"

Characters Three Aces: Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill & Whistler Will.
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Louis Cazeneuve
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-6-08.

Half page Gags filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-6-08.

8 page Mr. America story "The Skeletons in Armor"

Characters Mr. America [Tex Thomson]; V: The Queen Bee; Fatman (Bob Dailey).
Genre superhero
Script Ken Fitch
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Notes Writer credit per Jerry Bails, via Craig Delich 5/05.

Half page Chief Hot Foot filler

Characters Chief Hot Foot
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-6-08.

2 page text story "V... -- for Vengeance"

Genre crime
Script Norman Goss (signed)
Letters Typeset

6 page Congo Bill story "The Red Khan"

Characters Congo Bill; V: the Red Khan.
Genre jungle
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray
Notes Writer revision from Fred Ray? to ? by Craig Delich 9-6-08.

1 page Chief Hot Foot filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-6-08.

9 page Zatara story "Nargo, the Ruler of Atlantis"

Characters Zatara; V: Nargo.
Genre occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Joseph Sulman
Inks Joseph Sulman