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.