Issue | #30 |
Published | September-October 1944 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (uncredited) |
Characters | Lois Lane; Clark Kent; Superman |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Jack Burnley |
Inks | Jack Burnley |
Notes | Verified by Jack Burnley. |
Characters | Silver Foxx (Intro; Villain); Jimmy Olson (sic); Lois Lane; Perry White |
Synopsis | Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is trying to trick her into believing he's Superman! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Don Cameron |
Pencils | Ira Yarbrough |
Inks | Stan Kaye? |
Notes | Writer id by Martin O'Hearn, inker id by Bob Hughes 12/04. |
Characters | Jack Dover (Intro; Villain); Clark Kent |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Don Cameron |
Pencils | Ed Dobrotka |
Inks | George Roussos |
Notes | Writer id by Martin O'Hearn, inker id by Bob Hughes 12/04. |
Reprinted | in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #122 (May 1972) |
Characters | Poltus VI (Intro; Flashback); Andronicus (Intro; Flashback); Johnny Poly (Intro) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Ira Yarbrough |
Inks | George Roussos |
Notes | Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn, inker credit by Bob Hughes 12/04. |
Genre | humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Script | Eric Carter |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Mr. Mxyztplk (Intro); Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen |
Synopsis | An imp from another dimension plagues Superman with practical jokes until he can make him say his name backwards. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel |
Pencils | Joe Shuster ?; Ira Yarbrough |
Inks | Ira Yarbrough |
Notes | Mxyztplk is pronounced "Mix-yizt-pulk" according to Alvin Schwartz. Name was changed to Mxyzptlk in 1958. Writer credit claimed by Jerry Siegel in a letter to Richard Morrissey that states this story was written prior to earlier printed newspaper sequence by Whitney Ellsworth and Wayne Boring. "I thought I was the only one who could fly!" |
Reprinted | in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #183 (January 1966); in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971) #nn; in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn |
Genre | humor |
Script | Jack Farr? |
Pencils | Jack Farr? |
Inks | Jack Farr? |