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Issue Details

Issue #8
Published June-July 1952
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Julius Schwartz (actual)
Notes additional information provided by Arthur Lortie

Cover Details - "Who Will Be the Future Masters of Earth?"

Genre science fiction
Pencils Bob Oksner?
Inks Bernard Sachs?
Notes additional information provided by Arthur Lortie

1 page Superman public service announcement "Hop On the Welfare Wagon"

Genre superhero
Script Jack Schiff
Pencils Win Mortimer
Inks Win Mortimer
Letters Ira Schnapp

7 page story "It's A Woman's World"

Genre science fiction
Script John Broome [as John Osgood]
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bernard Sachs
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics (April 2007).
Reprinted in Mysteries in Space: The Best of DC Science Fiction Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1980 series) #nn (October 1980); in From Beyond the Unknown #11 (DC, June-July 1971).

Half page Pud advertisement "Boy He's Excited!"

Notes Double Bubble gum ad

7 page story "Earth--The Forbidden Planet"

Genre science fiction
Script Gardner Fox (signed)
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Sy Barry
Reprinted in Strange Adventures (DC, 1950 series) #148

1 page Jim Wise advertisement "The Crossed-Up Car Crook"

Notes PF Flyer ad

1 page filler "The Rotation of Stars"

Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz
Pencils Morris Waldinger?
Inks Tommy Nicolosi?

2 page What Do You Know About text article "Venus?"

Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz
Pencils Raymond Perry
Inks Raymond Perry
Letters typeset

7 page Knights of the Galaxy story "Lives of A Rocket Lancer"

Characters Lyle; Ora: Commander Artho; Zal-Du
Genre science fiction
Script Robert Kanigher [as Dion Anthony]
Pencils Carmine Infantino
Inks Sy Barry
Reprinted in Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #85 (November-December 1970)

1 page filler "Meteor Menace In Space"

Genre fact
Script Julius Schwartz
Pencils Morris Waldinger?
Inks Tommy Nicolosi?

1 page advertisement

Notes House ad for Action Comics and House of Mystery. 1/3 page Ad for Superman 76. Superman and Batman together. On sale March 7th.

3 page advertisement

Notes ads for Wildroot Creame Oil, Necco Wafers, Wheaties, Daisy Air Rifles.