Superboy #20

Published
September 1950
Page count
36
Cover price
6d [0-0-6 AUP]
Colour
Black & white
Size
Standard size
Interior paper
Newsprint
Cover stock
Matte colour
Binding
Saddle-stitched
Format
Comic series
Branding
Colour Comics Pty Ltd
 
Colour Comics Pty Ltd

Credits

Editing
, editor

Issue contents Hide all

Show/hide Cover Superboy Hunts for a Job (Superboy, the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy) Cover, 1 page

"What happens when Superboy hunts for a job" ?"

Featuring

Feature
Superboy, the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Superboy

Credits

Art
John Sikela , line art
Colours
, colourist
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #152 (May 1950)
Superboy Hunts for a Job
Show/hide 1. Superboy Hunts For a Job (Superboy, the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy, the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Superboy; Ma Kent; Perry White

Credits

Writing
Al Schwartz, scripter [as Alvin Schwartz]
Art
John Sikela, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #152 (May 1950)
Superboy Hunts for a Job
Also printed
Australia
Colossal Comic Annual (Colour Comics, 1956 series) #4 ([April 1958])
Superboy Hunts for a Job
 
Australia
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #49 ([May 1969?])
Superboy Hunts for a Job

Synopsis

Clark goes to Metropolis during school vacation to try to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up.

Show/hide 2. The Poison Planet (Tommy Tomorrow) Comic story, 8 pages

Featuring

Feature
Tommy Tomorrow
Genre
Science fiction

Credits

Writing
Otto Binder, scripter
Art
Curt Swan, penciller
 
John Fischetti, inker
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #144 (May 1950)
The Poison Planet
Also printed
Australia
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #42 ([August 1967?])
The Poison Planet
 
Australia
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #42 ([August 1967?])
Show/hide 3. The Boy Without a World (Superboy, the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy, the Adventures of Superman when he was a Boy
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
Ed Hamilton , scripter
Art
John Sikela, line art
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original editor [attributed]
 
Mort Weisinger, original editor [attributed]

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #8 (May-June 1950)
The Boy Without a World!
Also printed
Australia
Colossal Comic (Colour Comics, 1958 series) #51 ([November 1969])
The Boy Without a World!
Show/hide 4. It's a Fact! Cheese Helps Combat Night Blindness (Kraft Cheese) Advertisement, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Kraft Cheese

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
, line art (illustration)
Colours
, colourist
Text
, typeset

Status

This issue includes help from

  • Book Palace

AusReprints ID

  • 1047

Entry created

  • 26/12/2003

Cover added

  • 29/03/2009

Index completed

  • 29/03/2009

Last updated

  • 02/10/2019