Superboy #65

Published
July 1954
Page count
28
Cover price
6d [0-0-6 GBP]
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 The Super-Fat Boy of Steel! (Superboy) Cover, 1 page

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
Win Mortimer, line art
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, editor [credited]
 
Mort Weisinger, editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #24 (February-March 1953)
The Super-Fat Boy of Steel!
Also printed
Australia
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #65 ([June 1954?])
The Super-Fat Boy of Steel!
Show/hide 1. If you enjoy reading Superboy Promo (ad from the publisher), 1 page

"If you enjoy reading Superboy you'll thrill to the breath-taking adventures of Superman. Get Your copy! On sale now at all newsagents."

Details

Printed
1953
Genre
Superhero
More...
If you enjoy reading Superboy

Notes

Show/hide 2. The Super-Fat Boy of Steel! (Superboy) Comic story, 10 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Writing
Bill Woolfolk , scripter [as William Woolfolk]
Art
John Sikela, penciller
 
Ed Dobrotka , inker
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, editor [credited]
 
Mort Weisinger, editor [attributed] (actual)

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #24 (February-March 1953)
The Super-Fat Boy of Steel!
Also printed
Australia
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #65 ([June 1954?])
The Super-Fat Boy of Steel

Synopsis

All the kids in Smallville mysteriously become fat while Clark is on vacation.

Show/hide 3. The Terrible Truant! (Superboy) Comic story, 12 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superboy
Genre
Superhero
Characters
Superboy; Hiram Scrabble; Jero (from Xanadu, also as Jerome Smith); Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent

Credits

Writing
, scripter
Art
Curt Swan, penciller
 
John Fischetti, inker
Text
, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original editor [credited]
 
Jack Schiff, original Managing Editor
 
Mort Weisinger, Assistant Editor
 
George Kashdan, Assistant Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #190 (July 1953)
The Terrible Truant!
Also printed
Australia
Superboy (Colour Comics, 1950 series) #65 ([June 1954?])
The Terrible Truant
Show/hide 4. Untitled (Jerry the Jitterbug) Comic story, 2 pages

"Hello. Yes, this is Jerry. Friday night?"

Featuring

Feature
Jerry the Jitterbug
Genre
Humour; teen
Characters
Jerry the Jitterbug

Credits

Writing
Henry Boltinoff, scripter [signed]
Art
Henry Boltinoff, line art [signed]
Text
Henry Boltinoff, letterer
Editing
Whitney Ellsworth, original Editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #207 (May 1954)
Untitled

Status

Can you help?

This record is incomplete. Click here to help.

AusReprints ID

  • 58569

Entry created

  • 29/12/2014

Cover added

  • 29/12/2014

Last updated

  • 29/12/2014