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Issue Details

Issue #216
Published February-March 1973
Cover Price 0.20
Pages 36
Editing Murray Boltinoff; E Nelson Bridwell

Cover Details

Characters Superman; Batman; Superman, Jr.; Batman, Jr.
Genre superhero
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Reprinted in Superman / Batman: Saga of the Super Sons (DC, 2007 series) #nn

23 page Super Sons of Superman and Batman story "Little Town with a Big Secret!"

Characters Superman, Jr.; Batman, Jr.; Superman (cameo); Batman (cameo); Sweeper Wyatt; Bobby; Linda; Ice Man; Gar O'Ryan
Synopsis Superman, Jr. and Batman, Jr. ride into Barstow and discover that it is a town with secrets. Years ago, aliens crash-landed there, but while they waited for their spaceship to repair itself the townsfolk discovered and murdered them. Now the townsfolk are placing themselves in suspended animation, to await the day the spaceship has repaired itself and will open up and give them access to its riches inside. But one person in town knows something the rest don't and has plans of his own.
Genre superhero
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Feature bannered as "Superman Batman and Their Super-Sons" on splash page. The story also has two separate chapter titles: Part Two - The People without Shadows; Part Three - Children of the Universe.
Reprinted in Superman / Batman: Saga of the Super Sons (DC, 2007 series) #nn

1 page text article "Not So Secret Lives"

Synopsis biographies of Dick Dillin and Murphy Anderson
Genre bio
Script Dick Dillin; Murphy Anderson
Pencils Dick Dillin
Inks Murphy Anderson