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Issue Details

Issue	#113
Published	May 1957
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Mort Weisenger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Superman of the Present and the Superman of the Past"

Characters	Superman; Jor-El; Queen Latora
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	in Superman #113 [Pizza Hut Collectors' Edition Vol. 1] (DC, 1977 Series); in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn

8 page Superman story "The Superman of the Past (Part 1)"

Characters	Superman; Jor-El; Lara; Queen Latora (intro; the Vergoans (intro)
Synopsis	After disposing of a Kryoptonite meteor Supeman finds a box containing a mysterious helmet which contains "mind-tapes" of an adventure Jor-El had before Krypton blew up.
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Notes	1st full-issue and 3-part Superman story
Reprinted	In Superman #113 [Pizza Hut Collectors' Edition Vol. 1] (DC, 1977 Series).

Half page Quick Quiz filler

Genre	fact
Script	H. T. Elmo
Pencils	H. T. Elmo
Inks	H. T. Elmo

8 page Superman story "The Secret of the Towers (Part 2)"

Characters	Superman; Queen Latora; Jor-El
Synopsis	Queen Latora explains to Jor-El that Krypton is due to explode because of its Uranium core and she intends to use the energy to rekindle her own planet's dying sun.
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	In Superman #113 [Pizza Hut Collectors' Edition Vol. 1] (DC, 1977 Series).

3 page text article "DC Slogan contest winners"

Letters

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Half page Little Pete story

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

1 page Hy Wire filler

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

8 page Superman story "The Superman of the Present (Part 3)"

Characters	Superman; Jor-El; Queen Latora
Synopsis	In the present, Superman decides to seek out Queen Latora and rekindle her planets sun, because his father never could.
Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Wayne Boring
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	In Superman #113 [Pizza Hut Collectors' Edition Vol. 1] (DC, 1977 Series).

1 page public service announcement "A Date With Effie"

Genre	teen
Script	Jack Schiff
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye