Issue | #57 |
Published | February 1943 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual) |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Prankster (Villain) |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | John Sikela |
Inks | John Sikela |
Notes | Story title added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Reprinted | In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005); in Superman in the Forties (DC, 2005 series) #nn. |
Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; The Prankster (villain). |
Synopsis | The Prankster creates an organization called the Appreciation Society as a front for robberies, even claiming that he knows the secret to Superman's invulnerability. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
Pencils | John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster) |
Inks | John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster) |
Notes | Sikela's name on a sign on page 8. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 2008-09-21. |
Reprinted | In Wanted. The World's Most Dangerous Villains (DC, 1972 series) #9 (August-September 1973); in Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #4 (2005). |
Characters | Sgt. Meyer Levin |
Genre | fact |
Pencils | Cliff Young? |
Inks | Cliff Young? |
Characters | Chief Hot Foot |
Genre | gag |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Characters | The Vigilante [Greg Sanders] |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Mort Meskin [as Mort Morton Jr.] (signed) |
Inks | Charles Paris |
Letters | Charles Paris? |
Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Characters | Jerry |
Genre | gag |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Characters | Three Aces [Fog Fortune; Gunner Bill; Whistler Will] |
Genre | adventure; aviation |
Script | Gardner F. Fox |
Pencils | Louis Cazeneuve |
Inks | Louis Cazeneuve |
Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Characters | Clancy |
Genre | gag |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Characters | Americommando [Tex Thomson] |
Genre | war |
Script | Jospeh Greene |
Pencils | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Inks | Bernard Baily (signed) |
Notes | Writer per Jerry Bails via Craig Delich 5/05. |
Genre | adventure |
Script | Ed Tarr (signed) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Congo Bill |
Genre | jungle |
Pencils | John Daly? |
Inks | John Daly? |
Genre | humor |
Script | Henry Boltinoff |
Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 9-21-08. |
Characters | Zatara |
Genre | occult |
Pencils | Joseph Sulman |
Inks | Joseph Sulman |