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Issue Details

Issue #51
Published September 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "The Super-Money of Smallville!"

Characters Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "The Secret Lives of Superboy"

Characters Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Superbaby (flashback)
Synopsis Ma Kent accidentally donates Clark's baby things to charity.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Notes Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Origin of Superman's costume mentioned.
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #337

1 page Daffy & Doodle filler

Half page Lora filler

Genre teen humor

6 page Superboy story "My Super-Pet, Krypto!"

Characters Krypto; kryptonite; Superboy
Synopsis When Superboy is trapped by kryptonite, Krypto has to do all his feats for him.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted in Superman Family, The (DC, 1974 series) #173 (October-November 1975)

1 page public service announcement "The Big Dance"

Genre fact
Script Jack Schiff?
Letters typeset

8 page Superboy story "The Super-Money of Smallvile"

Synopsis Superboy raises money to help build an amusement park.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye?
Notes inker id by Bob Hughes 8/05.

1 page Little Pete filler

Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff