Issue | #61 |
Published | November-December 1949 |
Cover Price | 0.10 |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual) |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; The Prankster (villain); Lois Lane. |
Synopsis | The Prankster takes over Superman's radio show--and Supes has to fill 24 hours of radio time HIMSELF!! |
Genre | superhero |
Script | William Woolfolk? |
Pencils | Al Plastino |
Inks | Al Plastino |
Characters | Captain Tootsie; Rollo; Marybelle. |
Genre | superhero; ad |
Pencils | C. C. Beck (signed) |
Inks | C. C. Beck (signed) |
Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Peggy Wilkins (I, Lois Lane's roommate); Lois Lane; Bill Smith; Perry White. |
Synopsis | Lois decides Superman might be more likely to fall in love with her if she changed her hair color. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | William Woolfolk? |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Characters | Sunshine Nellie |
Genre | children; humor |
Genre | bio |
Script | Bill Stern |
Pencils | Raymond Perry? |
Inks | Raymond Perry? |
Colors | Raymond Perry? |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Little Pete |
Genre | celebrity; humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Characters | Superman (Clark Kent; origin retold); Jor-El; Lara; Pa Kent (unnamed); Ma Kent (unnamed); Swami Riva [Dan Rivers] (I, villain); Lois Lane; Perry White. |
Synopsis | Superman tails Lois as she investigates Swami Riva. When the swami hexes Superman, he appears to weaken, and the swami begins to sell his ability to hex Superman to members of the underworld. Superman does some investigating of his own and traces the gem in the swami's turban to a meteorite. He follows the path of the meteorite back in time and across space to the planet Krypton, which he surveys as a phantom. There, he learns how Jor-El failed to convince his people of their impending down and sent his son to Earth where he was adopted by the elderly Kents. Superman returns to the present and armed with the knowledge that Swami Riva's power is actually in the gem on his turban puts him out of business. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Bill Finger |
Pencils | Al Plastino |
Inks | Al Plastino |
Notes | Superman learns his origin for the first time. Writer ID by Martin O'Hearn. Green Kryptonite introduced in this story. |
Reprinted | In The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1990 series) #nn; in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn. |