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Issue Details

Issue #52
Published October 1956
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "Power-Boy of Earth!"

Characters Power Boy; Superboy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Inks credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005.

8 page Superboy story "The Heroine of Smallville"

Characters Lana Lang; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Professor Lang
Synopsis Lana believes an amulet her father has given her has magical properties.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela

1 page Binky public service announcement "How to Spend a Summer Week!"

Genre teen
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp

7 page Superboy story "The Power-Boy from Earth"

Characters Power Boy of Juno (introduction); Superboy
Synopsis Superboy visits an asteroid where he meets a boy with super powers just like his.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye ?
Notes Inks credit from Bob Hughes, August 2005; original indexer credited John Fischetti. Story retold in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #85.
Reprinted in Superboy Annual (DC, 1964 series) #1 (Summer 1964)

1 page story "Magic at Your Fingertips"

Letters typeset
Notes text page

Half page Varsity Vic filler

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

6 page Superboy story "The Super-Robot"

Characters Superboy robot (not made by him); Pop Peabody; Silky; Monk
Synopsis Two crooks try to peddle a Superboy robot that's supposed to have all his powers.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Giunta ?
Notes Inks credit from Bob Hughes, March 2009; the original indexer credited John Fischetti.
Reprinted in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #163 (March 1970)