Issue Details

Issue	#61
Published	November-December 1949
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	52
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details

Characters	Superman; Lois Lane.
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye

10 page Superman story "The Prankster's Radio Program!"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; The Prankster (villain); Lois Lane.
Synopsis	The Prankster takes over Superman's radio show--and Supes has to fill 24 hours of radio time HIMSELF!!
Genre	superhero
Script	William Woolfolk?
Pencils	Al Plastino
Inks	Al Plastino

1 page Captain Tootsie; Tootsie Rolls advertisement "Captain Tootsie Saves the Day!"

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

10 page Superman story "The Courtship of the Three Lois Lanes!"

Characters	Superman [Clark Kent]; Peggy Wilkins (I, Lois Lane's roommate); Lois Lane; Bill Smith; Perry White.
Synopsis	Lois decides Superman might be more likely to fall in love with her if she changed her hair color.
Genre	superhero
Script	William Woolfolk?
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye

1 page Sunshine Nellie filler

Characters	Sunshine Nellie
Genre	children; humor

2 page text article "How To Be a Sports Announcer"

Genre	bio
Script	Bill Stern
Pencils	Raymond Perry?
Inks	Raymond Perry?
Colors	Raymond Perry?
Letters	typeset

Half page Little Pete filler "Banister Out of Order"

Characters	Little Pete
Genre	celebrity; humor
Script	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks	Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters	Henry Boltinoff

12 page Superman story "Superman Returns To Krypton!"

Characters	Superman (Clark Kent; origin retold); Jor-El; Lara; Pa Kent (unnamed); Ma Kent (unnamed); Swami Riva [Dan Rivers] (I, villain); Lois Lane; Perry White.
Synopsis	Superman tails Lois as she investigates Swami Riva. When the swami hexes Superman, he appears to weaken, and the swami begins to sell his ability to hex Superman to members of the underworld. Superman does some investigating of his own and traces the gem in the swami's turban to a meteorite. He follows the path of the meteorite back in time and across space to the planet Krypton, which he surveys as a phantom. There, he learns how Jor-El failed to convince his people of their impending down and sent his son to Earth where he was adopted by the elderly Kents. Superman returns to the present and armed with the knowledge that Swami Riva's power is actually in the gem on his turban puts him out of business.
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Al Plastino
Inks	Al Plastino
Notes	Superman learns his origin for the first time. Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn. Green Kryptonite introduced in this story.
Reprinted	In The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #nn; in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn.