Dates
- Cover date
- April 1952
- On sale
- February 25, 1952
- Pages
- 44
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Machines of Crime! · 12 pages
A number of patchwork-colored spheres appear above the streets of Metropolis and proceed to rob a bank. Clark sees the report on the teletype and flies over to investigate, but finds no trace of them within a hundred miles. Apparently the only thing missing from the bank is pennies. Eventually the spheres are discovered to be extra-terrestrial in origin and their plan is to steal radium in order to produce rocket fuel.
- Susie · 0.67 pages
- The Man Who Stopped Space-Flight! · 5.67 pages
Dr. Graham Landon preaches space isolationism and invents a machine which nullifies the atomic motors of spaceships, and thus prevent interaction with other worlds. Tommy and Brent manage to reverse the effects, and inter-planetary travel is resumed. They visit Landon with an official directive to confiscate anything in his home - walls, food, shoes, televisor devices - that is not solely of Earth origin. He finally admits the error of his views
- The King of the Bandits! · 5.67 pages
Bill pursues a jewel thief posing as a photographer.
- Happy Birthday to Girl Scouts · 2 pages
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Girl Scouts, starting with their founder, Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low.
- The Outlaw Editor! · 7.67 pages
Black Baron is on a criminal rampage around Ridge Run City. Greg and Stuff arrive to investigate, but (as Vigilante) he is outwitted and Black Baron escapes. Eventually the villain is revealed to be the crusading editor of the town newspaper, Bert Hawks, who had been using his respectable position to learn details of shipments and deliveries.
Reprinted in
Superman (1939), Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (1958)