Dates
- Cover date
- December 1948
- On sale
- October 13, 1948
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Superman Takes the Consequences! · 10 pages
Superman appears on the radio program Truth or Consequences. His answers are truthful, as we have come to expect, but are rendered in such a way as to be obscure. When asked if he loves Lois Lane, for example, his response is so loud than none can understand; and when asked to reveal his secret identity he writes the answer on a blackboard so fast that it melts.
- The Man Who Laughed at Scotland Yard! · 6 pages
Bill pursues a diamond thief.
- The Interplanetary Aquarium · 8 pages
The year is 1988. Tommy Tomorrow recently graduated from Space Port with the rank of Colonel in the Planeteers. He is instructed to visit other planets in the solar system and bring back specimens of marine life, so that the giant aquarium can be expanded to an Interplanetary Aquarium. Joan Gordy of the Planetary Radio News accompanies Col. Tomorrow and his crew.
- Magic Music! · 6 pages
Tommy Kane self-finances publication of a song he has written, Beep Mullins gets him to sign a contract which curtails his rights to any profits. Zatara entertains at a musician's convention, where he animates various instruments and runs into Tommy, who explains the publishing situation. Zatara causes all manner of inanimate objects - the Statue of Liberty, civic hall clocks, statues in parks - to warble Tommy's song, which become a big hit.
- Wild Pitch · 1.67 pages
- El Boleadoro! · 8 pages
The Singing Troubadour Greg Sanders is on a world tour. While in Argentina he foils the criminal career of El Boleadoro.
Reprinted in
3-D Batman (1953), Century Comic (1961), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)