Issue Details

Issue	#30
Published	September-October 1944
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (uncredited)

Cover Details - "Superman, Alias Superman"

Characters	Lois Lane; Clark Kent; Superman
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Jack Burnley
Inks	Jack Burnley
Notes	Verified by Jack Burnley.

12 page Superman story "Superman Alias Superman"

Characters	Silver Foxx (Intro; Villain); Jimmy Olson (sic); Lois Lane; Perry White
Synopsis	Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is trying to trick her into believing he's Superman!
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron
Pencils	Ira Yarbrough
Inks	Stan Kaye?
Notes	Writer id by Martin O'Hearn, inker id by Bob Hughes 12/04.

4 page Lois Lane story "The Arch-Swindler"

Characters	Jack Dover (Intro; Villain); Clark Kent
Genre	superhero
Script	Don Cameron
Pencils	Ed Dobrotka
Inks	George Roussos
Notes	Writer id by Martin O'Hearn, inker id by Bob Hughes 12/04.
Reprinted	in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #122 (May 1972)

12 page Superman story "The King's Substitutes"

Characters	Poltus VI (Intro; Flashback); Andronicus (Intro; Flashback); Johnny Poly (Intro)
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Ira Yarbrough
Inks	George Roussos
Notes	Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn, inker credit by Bob Hughes 12/04.

Half page Private Pete filler

Genre	humor
Script	Henry Boltinoff
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff
Inks	Henry Boltinoff
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

2 page text story "Death of a Pirate"

Script	Eric Carter
Letters	typeset

12 page Superman story "The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk"

Characters	Mr. Mxyztplk (Intro); Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis	An imp from another dimension plagues Superman with practical jokes until he can make him say his name backwards.
Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster ?; Ira Yarbrough
Inks	Ira Yarbrough
Notes	Mxyztplk is pronounced "Mix-yizt-pulk" according to Alvin Schwartz. Name was changed to Mxyzptlk in 1958. Writer credit claimed by Jerry Siegel in a letter to Richard Morrissey that states this story was written prior to earlier printed newspaper sequence by Whitney Ellsworth and Wayne Boring. "I thought I was the only one who could fly!"
Reprinted	in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #183 (January 1966); in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971) #nn; in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn

1 page Handy Andy filler

Genre	humor
Script	Jack Farr?
Pencils	Jack Farr?
Inks	Jack Farr?