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Issue Details

Issue #199
Published December 1954
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (Managing Editor), Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan (story editors)

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

12 page Superman story "The Phantom Superman"

Characters Lex Luthor
Synopsis Luthor creates a duplicate of Superman composed of duplicate atoms. Luthor then sends the duplicate to cause disasters and help criminals. Superman discovers the duplicate is not a robot and realizes that Luthor must be behind its creation. After battling the duplicate until its power runs out, Superman trails the energy source back to Luthor and destroys the machine responsible for the creation of the duplicate.
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes synopsis by Darkmark

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "The Interplanetary Bank"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

8 page Congo Bill story "The School for Hunters"

Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Ed Smalle
Inks Ed Smalle
Reprinted in Tarzan (DC, 1972 series) #233 (October-November 1974)