Issue Details

Issue	#[nn]
Published	1965
Cover Price	9.95 USD
Editing	Jules Feiffer (comic reprints compiler)

Cover Details

Genre	superhero
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster
Letters	(typography)
Reprinted	from ?

43 page foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Introduction"

Script	Jules Feiffer
Pencils	various vignettes
Inks	various vignettes
Letters	typeset

2 page Superman story "The Origin of Superman"

Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster
Reprinted	from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1

9 page Superman story "Superman and the Dam"

Genre	superhero
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Joe Shuster
Inks	Joe Shuster
Reprinted	from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #5

1 page Captain Marvel story "The Origin of Captain Marvel"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Parker
Pencils	C.C. Beck
Inks	C.C. Beck
Reprinted	from Whiz Comics (Fawcett, 1940 series) #2

2 page Batman story "The Legend of the Batman -- Who He Is and How He came To Be"

Genre	superhero
Script	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Bob Kane
Inks	Bob Kane
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #1

13 page Batman story "The Joker"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Bob Kane
Inks	Jerry Robinson
Letters	Jerry Robinson
Reprinted	from Batman (DC, 1940 series) #1

15 page Human Torch story "The Hag"

Genre	superhero
Script	Carl Burgos
Pencils	Carl Burgos
Inks	Carl Burgos
Reprinted	from Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #19

15 page Flash story "The Origin of the Flash"

Genre	superhero
Script	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Harry Lampert
Inks	Harry Lampert
Reprinted	from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1 (January 1940)

8 page Green Lantern story "The Origin of Green Lantern"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Finger
Pencils	Martin Nodell (as Mart Dellon)
Inks	Martin Nodell (as Mart Dellon)
Reprinted	from All-American Comics (DC, 1939 series) #16

10 page Spectre story "The Cliffland Arson Murders"

Genre	superhero; occult
Script	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Bernard Baily
Inks	Bernard Baily
Reprinted	from All-Star Comics (DC, 1940 series) #1

10 page Hawkman story "The Sect of Assassins"

Genre	superhero
Script	Gardner Fox
Pencils	Sheldon Moldoff (as Shelly)
Inks	Sheldon Moldoff (as Shelly)
Reprinted	from Flash Comics (DC, 1940 series) #5

11 page Wonder Woman story "Wonder Woman vs Mammotha and Mars"

Genre	superhero
Script	William Moulton Marston
Pencils	H.G. Peter
Inks	H.G. Peter
Reprinted	from Wonder Woman (DC, 1942 series) #2

10 page Sub-Mariner story "Rampage in New York"

Genre	superhero
Script	Bill Everett
Pencils	Bill Everett
Inks	Bill Everett
Reprinted	from Marvel Mystery Comics (Marvel, 1939 series) #7

8 page Captain America story "Case No. 1, Meet Captain America"

Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Kirby; co-plot: Joe Simon
Pencils	Jack Kirby
Inks	Joe Simon et al
Reprinted	from Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #1

6 page Plastic Man story "The Origin of Plastic Man"

Genre	superhero
Script	Jack Cole
Pencils	Jack Cole
Inks	Jack Cole
Reprinted	from Police Comics (Quality Comics, 1941 series) #1

8 page Spirit story "The Spirit in Damascus"

Script	Will Eisner
Pencils	Will Eisner
Inks	Will Eisner
Letters	Sam Rosen
Reprinted	from Spirit, The (Register and tribune Syndicate, 1940 series) #7/20/41

5 page text article "Afterword"

Script	Jules Feiffer
Letters	typeset