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Issue Details

Issue #232
Published September 1957
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger (Superman); George Kashdan (backups)

Cover Details - "Superman, Junior!"

Characters Superman; Superman Jr.
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn

12 page Superman story "The Story of Superman, Junior"

Characters Superman; Superman, Junior [Johnny Kirk]; Superboy (flashback); Kryptonite
Synopsis Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #7 (Summer 1963); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #25

1 page public service announcement "Danger: Prejudice at Work"

Genre teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira

1 page Ollie filler

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

6 page Congo Bill story "Three Dives to Doom"

Characters Congo Bill; Janu; Tom Rader
Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller?
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Notes Writer id by Bob Hughes.

Half page Shorty filler

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

1 page text article "So You Want to Be A Photographer"

Letters typeset

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Riddle of the Space Rainbow"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow; Brent Wood; "Nova" Norton (villain); Space Fishermen (villains)
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Notes Reprint info (Arthur Lortie).
Reprinted in Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1973) #1 (February 1973).