Issue Contents:
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
Credits
- Pencils: Al Plastino
- Inks: Al Plastino
- Colors: Jack Adler
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Clark Kent's Career!
"The biggest secret in the world is that Superman is really timid Clark Kent..."
Storyline
Flashback story shows how Clark Kent came to Metropolis and got his job at the Daily Planet. Clark first met Perry in Smallville, but Perry doesn't seem to remember him, so he tries to get a job as a policeman instead. He also tries to sell vacuum cleaners.
Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Perry White
- Lois Lane
Credits
- Script: Suat Yalaz
- Pencils: Wayne Boring
- Inks: Stan Kaye
Story Notes
Cross over with this month's Adventure Comics, #152.
Pee Wee Reese
Up, Up and Away!
Featuring World's Finest Comics; Superman
The Poison Planet!
"Even the daring Planeteers are startled when it is proposed to fit up a small planet with rocket-tubes and pilot it like a ship!"
Storyline
Because of the threat posed by poisonous fungus spores drifting through Earth's atmosphere from the planetoid Arkar, Tommy and the Planeteers are instructed to evacuate that world, against its people's wishes, before it can be exiled from the solar system.
Characters
- Colonel Tommy Tomorrow
- Dr. Norden
Credits
- Script: Edmond Hamilton (uncertain)
- Pencils: Curt Swan
- Inks: John Fischetti
Story Notes
This story is not in Otto Binder's records as as shown in Alter Ego 147.
Lassoing the Lion
"And with the costume I got for us, Jerry, we should be a cinch for first prize"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Superman's Secret Message
Dead Man's Gold!
Editorial Advisory Board
Any Gum, Chum?
Storyline
How chewing gum and bubble gum are made.
Credits
- Pencils: Luca Maresca
- Inks: Luca Maresca
"Golly, it's muddy out after the rain!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Home, Sweet Home!
Storyline
Everyone in Binky's family learns a lesson about being more thoughtful and accommodating to one another.
Characters
- Binky Biggs
- Lucy Biggs
- Li'l Allergy
- Mr. Biggs
- Mrs. Biggs
Credits
- Script: Jack Schiff
- Pencils: Sheldon Mayer
- Inks: Sheldon Mayer (uncertain)
- Letters: Ira Schnapp
Story Notes
Published in cooperation with leading national social welfare and youth-serving organizations. Art credits from Bob Hughes, Gene Reed, Merlin Haas, Edgar Loftin, and Allen Ross. Loftin and Ross question Mayer inks credit. Bob Bailey argues Bob Oksner base with Mayer heads.
Two Dead Men!
"The legends of the West's lost mines are many..."
Storyline
Vigilante is asked to try and find the lost gold mine discovered by Jim Poland and Zeb Lee in 1870. After much futile searching he spies a wall hanging in the home of Don Mariposa, which supposedly shows the exact location.
Characters
- Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
- Stuff, the Chinatown Kid
- Jim Poland
- Zeb Lee
- Dolores Mariposa
- Don Mariposa
- Slick Adams
Credits
- Script: Gardner Fox
- Pencils: Dan Barry
- Inks: Dan Barry
"Boy - look at all these snowballs!"
Credits
- Script: Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils: Henry Boltinoff
- Inks: Henry Boltinoff
- Letters: Henry Boltinoff
Pierre St. Amand; Barbara Bittner; Jack Roush; Mary Chase (1)
Characters
- Pierre St. Amand
- Barbara Bittner
- Jack Roush
- Mary Chase
Credits
- Script: Stookie Allen
- Pencils: Stookie Allen
- Inks: Stookie Allen
- Letters: Stookie Allen
Story Notes
Back cover.