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Issue Details

Issue #62
Published January-February 1950
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details

Characters Superman; Orson Welles
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

12 page Superman story "Black Magic On Mars"

Characters Superman; Orson Welles; Martler (Intro, villain); other Martians (Intro); Nancy Guild; Perry White; Lois Lane
Synopsis Orson accidentally gets trapped in a rocket to Mars where he meets Martian Nazis. No one on Earth believes his broadcast pleas for help, except Superman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Promotes the new Orson Welles film Black Magic. Superman's first visit to Mars.
Reprinted in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn (1983)

10 page Superman story "The People Vs. Superman"

Characters Superman; The Ace (Intro, villain); Lois Lane; Perry White
Synopsis Superman is arrested for the murder of Clark Kent.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes First extensive use of super-ventriloquism.

2 page text article "How Football Began"

Pencils Raymond Perry ?
Inks Raymond Perry ?
Colors Raymond Perry ?
Letters typeset
Notes origin of football

1 page Superboy public service announcement "Give Your Town a Present"

Characters Superboy
Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer

4 page story "Pioneer Days In Oregon"

Script Gardner Fox ?
Pencils Fred Ray ?
Inks Fred Ray ?

Half page Peg filler

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

Half page Shorty story

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)

12 page Superman story "Mr. Mxyztplk, Hero"

Characters Superman; Mr. Mxyztplk; Larissa Lee (intro, another LL!); Perry White; Lois Lane
Synopsis Mxyztplk falls in love with actress Larissa Lee and decides to become a hero in order to impress her.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes redone in Superman 174