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Issue Details

Issue #253
Published June 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The War between Jimmy Olsen and Superman!"

Characters Superman; Jimmy Olsen
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

11 page Superman story "The War between Jimmy Olsen and Superman!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor (unnamed); green kryptonite; El Gar Kur (villain)
Synopsis A criminal from Kandor switches places with Jimmy Olsen and forces Superman to reveal the location of his Fortress of Solitude, so he can destroy the bottled city. But scientists in Kandor reverse the switch just in time.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #2 (September 1964); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #16; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

Half page Tricksy, World's Greatest Stunt Man filler

Genre Gag
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

8 page Supergirl story "The Secret of the Super-Orphan!"

Characters Supergirl (brief origin); Miss Hart; Superman (flashback, in newsreel footage); Zor-El (flashback); Timmy Tate
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Reprinted in Supergirl Archives (DC, 2001 series) #1; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Letters typeset

7 page Congorilla story "The Destroyer of Congo Bill!"

Characters Congo Bill; Congorilla
Genre superhero; jungle
Script Jack Miller
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman

Half page Peg filler

Script Henry Boltinoff ?
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff