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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published March 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Robert Kanigher (actual)
Notes First Joe Kubert cover on Star Spangled War Stories. Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

Cover Details - "The Talking Helmet!"

Genre War
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Notes First Joe Kubert cover on Star Spangled War Stories. Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Schwartz kept editorial records for Robert Kanigher, who edited this issue (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page story "The Burning Desert"

Genre War
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Russ Heath
Inks Russ Heath
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page story "The Walking Snowbird"

Genre War
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Joe Kubert
Inks Joe Kubert
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page story "Back Street Battle"

Genre War
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Joe Giella
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

6 page The Talking Helmet story "Diary of a Tin Pot"

Genre War
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Jerry Grandenetti
Inks Jerry Grandenetti
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (added by Greg Fischer, July 2008).

1 page filler "First in War..."

Genre War
Script Morris Waldinger
Pencils Morris Waldinger
Inks Tom Nicolisi