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Issue Details

Issue #28
Published April 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye

1 page Peter Porkchops public service announcement "The Secret of the Happy Pig!"

Genre funny animal
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Rube Grossman
Inks Rube Grossman
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes inside front cover

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Spendthrift and the Miser"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #125

1 page Tricksy filler

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

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Boy Who Killed Superman"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #4 (Winter 1962); in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #113 (September 1968)

1 page Varsity Vic filler

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

1 page text article "Gag Bag"

Letters typeset

8 page Jimmy Olsen story "The Human Skyscraper"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Prof. Potter; Flying Newsroom; "Wonders" Wilson
Synopsis When Prof. Potter gives Jimmy the wrong pill for a toothache, Jimmy ends up several stories tall, with the mind of a child. Trying to relieve Jimmy's toothache pain, Superman stumbles on the very antidote necessary to reverse Jimmy's transformation.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #2 (September 1964); in Superman: The Amazing Transformations of Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2007 series) #[nn]