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Issue Details

Issue #161
Published May 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superman Goes to War!"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn

13 page Superman; An Untold Story of Superman story "The Last Days of Ma and Pa Kent!"

Characters Jonathan Kent (death); Martha Kent (death); Lana Lang; Blackbeard (intro, villain); Lex Luthor; Superboy (guest star); Phantom Zone; Jor-El (statue); Lara (statue) (all in flashback); Superman
Synopsis On the anniversary of his adoptive parents' deaths, Superman recalls how he, as Superboy, sent his parents on a Caribbean cruise on which they contracted the fever plague that, despite his best efforts to cure them, led to their sad passing.
Genre superhero
Script Leo Dorfman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #165 (June 1970) [retitled there as "The Death of Ma and Pa Kent"]; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

12 page Superman story "Superman Goes To War!"

Characters Superman; Supergirl (guest appearance); Zhorians (intro); Mr. Haller [a Hollywood producer] (intro); Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein