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Issue Details

Issue #85
Published June 1945
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley [verified by Burnley]
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

12 page Superman story "The Puzzle in Jade"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; V: Toyman.
Synopsis When reports of toy ships attacking freighters comes across the desk of reporter Clark Kent, he suspects that it's all a plot of recent prison escapee, The Toyman.
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron (signed as Jerry Siegel)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 10-21-07.
Reprinted in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #5 (2007)

5 page The Vigilante story "Old Wyoming"

Characters The Vigilante [Greg Sanders]
Genre western
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils Mort Meskin (signed as Mort Morton Jr.)

6 page Hayfoot Henry story "The Hungry Hare"

Characters Hayfoot Henry
Genre detective; humor
Pencils Thurston Harper?
Inks Thurston Harper?
Notes Art credits by Jerry Bails. Writer credit revised from Alvin Schwartz to ? by Craig Delich 10-24-08. The Who's Who states that Schwartz wrote this strip from 1946-48.

2 page text story "Secrets for Sale"

Genre adventure
Script Murray Boltinoff (signed as Blair Bolton)
Letters typeset

10 page Congo Bill story "Secret of the Rug of Tezan"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils John Daly
Inks John Daly

8 page Zatara story "The Magician's Apprentice"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Script Joe Samachson
Pencils William F. White
Inks William F. White