Issue Contents:
Aesop's Modern Fables
Editorial Advisory Board
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
"For spine-tingling action..."
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Aesop's Modern Fables
"Once upon a time there was a guy named Trigger Mike..."
Storyline
An escaped prisoner named Johnny Aesop, ribbed when he was younger about his last name, decides to commit crimes based on the ancient fables to gain wealth and notoriety.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Lois Lane
- Perry White
- Johnny Aesop
Credits
- Script: Bill Finger
- Pencils: Ira Yarbrough
- Inks: George Roussos
Story Notes
Credits from Siegel's records: Siegel and Shuster v. National Comics Publications, Inc. et al., case no. 1099 (Westchester Cty. Sup. Ct. 1947).
"Why not? They helped give me the energy..."
Credits
- Pencils: Marcos Ordóñez
- Inks: Marcos Ordóñez
The Baseball Barrage
"In Sleepyside, where verse alone is spoken..."
Characters
- Hayfoot Henry
Credits
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Story Notes
Alvin Schwartz script credit and possible Stan Kaye pencils credit removed by Craig Delich. The Who's Who lists Schwartz as writer only in 1946-48 and Kaye as inker only in 1944. The text is written in rhyming couplets.
Blunderbuss Booty!
"From swiping to swapping - - that's The Dummy's plan..."
Storyline
The Vigilante and Stuff attend the parole board meeting for The Dummy, who claims he is rehabilitated. The Vigilante decides he ought to have another chance, providing he pays back the loot from the last robbery he committed. So, The Dummy opens up a swap shop and appears to be going straight. A thief calling himself The Lash breaks into the Robertson home and steals an old blunderbuss. He then continues to steal blunderbusses, and when Vigilante and Stuff give chase they find themselves near The Dummy's swap shop. They later pursue The Lash and find that he and The Dummy are in cahoots.
Characters
- The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
- Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
- The Dummy (villain)
- The Lash (villain)
- Robertson
- Mrs. Robertson
Credits
- Pencils: Mort Meskin
- Inks: George Roussos
"Me make-um over wigwam..."
Characters
- Chief Hot Foot
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Story Notes
Writer credit added by Craig Delich.
Superman's Secret Message
Money Talks
Credits
- Script: Lou Beach
Frame Up in Fur!
"Congo Bill, out-rider of the world's hinterlands..."
Storyline
Working for the North Star Fur Company, Bill captures a gang of fur thieves working right under the police's nose.
Characters
- Congo Bill
- Baldy
- Dwight
Credits
- Pencils: Carolina Hernandez Mendoza
- Inks: Carolina Hernandez Mendoza
The Sting of Death!
"The hiss of swift and silent death lances down out of the sky..."
Storyline
Visiting his old friend Dick Pack, Zatara finds him in mortal fear of "The Sting of Death". To escape the curse a ransom of $50,000 is demanded. At the subsequent party one of the guests is a maharajah. Zatara unravels his turban to reveal a hive filled with angry robber wasps, their stings dipped in deadly cobra venom.
Characters
- Zatara [Giovanni "John" Zatara]
- Dick Pack
- The Maharajah [Daggers Fanelli] (crook)
Credits
- Pencils: William White
- Inks: William White
Featuring Joe Jam
"Joe, is our credit good for two sodas?"
Characters
- Joe Jam
- Sugarpuss
- Judy
Credits
- Script: Ray McGill
- Pencils: Ray McGill
- Inks: Ray McGill
Story Notes
Inside back cover, in black and white.
The Mysterious Blonde
Story Notes
Back cover.