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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published March 1957
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger, (actual)

Cover Details - "The Secret of Smallville High!"

Characters Superboy; Jonathan Kent
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

8 page Superboy story "The Mystery of the Space Trophies"

Characters Ma Kent, Lana Lang
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils John Sikela
Inks John Sikela
Reprinted in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #340

1 page Bobby filler

8 page Superboy story "A Visit from Superman's Pal"

Characters Jimmy Olsen, Lana Lang, Ma and Pa Kent.
Synopsis Jimmy accidentally goes back in time and ends up in Smallville.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Superman Annual (1960 series) #1 (1960); in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #114 (September 1968) [with 1 page missing]; in Superboy: The Greatest Team-Ups Ever Told (DC, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page Lionel and His Lions filler

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

2 page text story "Swamp Hero"

Letters typeset
Notes text page

8 page Superboy story "The Secret of Smallville High"

Characters Prof Lang, Lana Lang, Ma and Pa Kent
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes inker id by Bob Hughes 8/05. Formerly John Fischetti.