Issue | #62 |
Published | January-February 1950 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 52 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual) |
Characters | Superman; Orson Welles |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Characters | Superman; Orson Welles; Martler (Intro, villain); other Martians (Intro); Nancy Guild; Perry White; Lois Lane |
Synopsis | Orson accidentally gets trapped in a rocket to Mars where he meets Martian Nazis. No one on Earth believes his broadcast pleas for help, except Superman. |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Notes | Promotes the new Orson Welles film Black Magic. Superman's first visit to Mars. |
Reprinted | in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn (1983) |
Characters | Superman; The Ace (Intro, villain); Lois Lane; Perry White |
Synopsis | Superman is arrested for the murder of Clark Kent. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Alvin Schwartz |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Notes | First extensive use of super-ventriloquism. |
Pencils | Raymond Perry ? |
Inks | Raymond Perry ? |
Colors | Raymond Perry ? |
Letters | typeset |
Notes | origin of football |
Characters | Superboy |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jack Schiff |
Pencils | Win Mortimer |
Inks | Win Mortimer |
Script | Gardner Fox ? |
Pencils | Fred Ray ? |
Inks | Fred Ray ? |
Genre | teen; humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Genre | humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff (signed) |
Characters | Superman; Mr. Mxyztplk; Larissa Lee (intro, another LL!); Perry White; Lois Lane |
Synopsis | Mxyztplk falls in love with actress Larissa Lee and decides to become a hero in order to impress her. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Alvin Schwartz |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Notes | redone in Superman 174 |