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Issue Details

Issue #224
Published January 1957
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (managing); Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan (assistants)

Cover Details - "The Secret of Superman Island!"

Characters Superman; Superman Island
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn

12 page Superman story "The Secret of Superman Island"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; Superman Island; Green Kryptonite; Professor Vanley
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hamilton?
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes writer id by Bob Hughes 12/06

1 page Buzzy public service announcement "Famous Books Quiz"

Genre teen; humor
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Ruben Moreira
Inks Ruben Moreira

5 page Congo Bill story "The Golden Gorilla"

Characters Congo Bill; Janu; The Golden Gorilla (intro)
Synopsis Congo Bill meets a golden gorilla that seems to be intelligent and has to protect it from hunters.
Genre jungle
Script Jack Miller?
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman
Notes May be same Golden Gorilla as Congorilla, may be not.

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Seven Disappearing Wonders of Space!"

Characters Tommy Tomorrow (origin as a Planeteer); Prof.Todd
Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney

Half page Shorty filler

Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

1 page Little Pete filler

Genre children; humor
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

2 page text article "Daredevils of the Deep"

Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset