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Issue Details

Issue #59
Published July-August 1949
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

10 page Superman story "Lois Lane, Queen of the Amazons"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; A tribe of Amazons (Intro); Manya
Synopsis Under a mysterious spell, Lois joins a tribe of Amazon women in the Amazon jungle.
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk ?
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

1 page Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Rolls story "Captain Tootsie and The Mysterious Plan"

Characters Captain Tootsie; Rollo
Genre superhero; ad
Pencils C. C. Beck (signed)
Inks C. C. Beck (signed)

12 page Superman story "The Man of Steel's Super Manhunt"

Characters Superman; Alan Shotwell (Intro, Dies, villain); Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk ?
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

2 page Shorty filler "Her Brightest Student"

Characters Shorty
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page text article "Green Magic"

Script William Woolfolk [as William Irwin]
Pencils Raymond Perry ?
Inks Raymond Perry ?
Colors Raymond Perry ?
Letters typeset

Half page Jerry the Jitterbug filler

Genre teen; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page Daffy & Doodle filler

Genre humor
Script Lit-Win
Pencils Lit-Win
Inks Lit-Win
Letters Lit-Win

12 page Superman story "The City That Forgot Superman"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; Mr. Mxyztplk
Synopsis Mxyztplk makes everyone forget there ever was a Superman, and nothing Superman can do will convince anyone otherwise.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Plot revised and re-used in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #150.