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Issue Details

Issue #100
Published September 1946
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (Managing Editor); Mort Weisinger (story editor)

Cover Details - "The Sleuth Who Never Failed"

Characters Superman; Inspector Hawkins
Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Ed Dobrotka

12 page Superman story "The Sleuth Who Never Failed"

Characters Superman; Inspector Hawkins (intro)
Synopsis Inspector Hawkins tries to trap Clark Kent into revealing he is Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Ira Yarbrough
Inks Stan Kaye?
Notes Ideas, themes and plot devices from this story form the basis for most of the "Lois Lane thinks Clark Kent is Superman" stories of the next two decades. Inker id by Bob Hughes 8/06

4 page Hayfoot Henry story "The Rhyming Horse"

Characters Hayfoot Henry
Genre detective; humor
Script Al Schwartz
Pencils Stan Kaye
Inks Stan Kaye

6 page Congo Bill story "The Case of the Captive Seals"

Characters Congo Bill
Genre jungle
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray

1 page Sunshine Nelly filler

Genre gag

1 page Daffy & Doodle filler

Pencils Lit-Win
Inks Lit-Win

10 page Vigilante story "The Book That Was Too Real"

Characters The Vigilante; Stuff
Genre superhero
Script Don Cameron
Pencils Mort Meskin?
Inks George Roussos

7 page Zatara story "Magic--Past or Present"

Characters Zatara
Genre occult
Script Don Cameron
Pencils W. F. White
Inks W. F. White