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Issue Details

Issue #246
Published November 1958
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Doom from Krypton!"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

12 page Superman story "Krypton on Earth!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Jonas Smith
Synopsis Real estate promoter Jonas Smith creates the planned community of Krypton Island, which opens with a pageant featuring a re-enactment of Jor-El and Lara sending Baby Kal-El to Earth. But Superman realizes Smith is a wanted criminal and stops him from smuggling off Krypton Island diamonds that Superman made from coal.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder?
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

6 page Congo Bill story "The King of Cages"

Synopsis Story title correction from Error Report #3755, by James Zanotto.
Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Notes writer id by Craig Delich 8/05

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Destination Unknown"

Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney