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Issue Details

Issue #55
Published February 1965
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superman's Secret Wife!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger

1 page public service announcement "Don't Give Fire a Place to Start!"

Characters Superboy [Clark Kent]
Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp
Notes Inside front cover

8 page Lois Lane story "Lois Lane's College Scoops"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Pete Ross (Flashback)
Synopsis Lois tells the story of three scoops she got in college. Unknown to Lois, Superman had influenced all three scoops, even though they had not yet met.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger (signed)
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger (signed)
Letters Vivian Berg
Notes It is established in this story that Lois Land and Pete Ross went to the same college.
Reprinted in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #6/1966; in Superman Presents Tip Top Comics Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 series) #16 (c. 1967)

Half page Letters to Lois letters page

Letters Typeset

Half page text article "Statement of Ownership"

Letters Typeset

Half page Varsity Vic filler "Oh, oh - A Damsel in Distress"

Characters Varsity Vic
Synopsis Vic changes a pretty girl's tire.
Genre gag
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

8 page Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane story "Superman's Secret Wife!"

Characters Lois Lane; Superman [Clark Kent]; Circe; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Professor Phineas Potter; Lucy Lane; Lori Lemaris; Ronal; Fortress of Solitude; Lana Lang
Synopsis Lois learns that Superman has secretly been married and tries to figure out who he had married.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Letters Milt Snapinn

9 page Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane story "The Fingergirl of Death!"

Characters Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Roger "Rajah" Drake; Monk; Perry White
Synopsis Lois Lane goes undercover as a mobster's moll to bring down Roger "Rajah" Drake.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger (signed)
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger (signed)
Letters Milt Snapinn
Reprinted in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #5/1966; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #10/1969