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Issue Details

Issue #269
Published February 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superdog's Mean Master!"

Characters Krypto; Solar Boy
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Shelly Moldoff
Notes Blurb on cover refers to Aqualad as Aquaboy for the 1st and only time, (though Aqualad in the story).

12 page Superboy story "Krypto's Mean Master!"

Characters Krypto; Solar Boy; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Superboy [Clark Kent]
Synopsis Krypto searches for a new master after Superboy punishes him, with disastrous results.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils George Papp
Inks George Papp
Reprinted in Superman Family, The (DC, 1974 series) #169 (February-March 1975)

Half page Peg filler "That's a neat idea, Jane"

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

Half page statement of ownership "Statement of Ownership"

Letters Typeset

7 page Green Arrow story "The Comic Book Archer!"

Characters Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Speedy [Roy Harper]; Mr. Sloan (Editor of All-Star Comics); Bill Nixon (creator of the Wizard Archer)
Synopsis Sloan refuses to buy Nixon's comic strip because it's too unbelievable, so Green Arrow has to duplicate the Wizard Archer's amazing feats.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Green Arrow (DC, 2006 series) #1

1 page Smallville Mailsack letters page

Letters Typeset

Half page Tricksy World's Greatest Stuntman story "I'm tired of crashing through brick walls"

Genre gags
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff

Half page promo (ad from the publisher) "Coming Super-Attractions"

Notes Ad for Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #15, Superboy #79, and Action Comics #261.

7 page Aquaman story "The Kid from Atlantis!"

Characters Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Aqualad [Garth] (intro, origin); Atlantis; Topo
Synopsis Aquaman helps Aqualad, a rejected child from Atlantis, to overcome his fear of fish. Aquaman adopts Aqualad as his sidekick.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Ramona Fradon
Notes Writer credit by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #9 (May 1981); in Showcase (DC, 1956 series) #79 (December 1968); in The Aquaman Archives (DC, 2000 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Aquaman (DC, 2007 series) #1