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Issue Details

Issue #79
Published November-December 1952
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

10 page Superman story "Citadel of Doom"

Characters Lex Luthor (Villain)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

9 page Superman story "The End of the Planet!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; V: John Wilton (I; briefly publishes the DAILY PLANET); "Skip" Enders
Synopsis When newspaper mogul John Wilton buys the Daily Planet and immediately shuts it down, the former employees start their own paper, gathering scoops in the new jobs they have taken to pay the bills. But Wilton tries to shut down this new competitor permanently.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #6 (July-August 1980); in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Superman: Daily Planet (DC, 2006 series) #nn

2 page text article "Can Everybody Speak the Same?"

Script Dick Keene
Letters Typeset

12 page Superman story "The Revenge That Took Three Hundred Years"

Characters Inspector Erskine Hawkins; "Guy Fawkes" [Roddy Greene] (Villain, Intro)
Genre superhero
Script Alvin Schwartz
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino