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Issue Details

Issue #172
Published October 1964
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Tyrant Superman!"

Characters Superman (as Clark Kent); Ar-Val
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

8 page Superman story "The New Superman! [part 1]"

Characters Superman (origin retold in brief); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Lana Lang (guest star); New Superman [Ar-Val] (intro); Bran-Een; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Krypton (flashback); Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; Green Lantern's ring (cameo)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes definitely an Ed Hamilton story, confirmed in lettercol of Action Comics 315

8 page Superman story "Clark Kent--Former Superman! [part 2]"

Characters Cosmic Boy; Invisible Kid; Saturn Girl (all as the Legion of Super-Heroes, guest stars); Superman (also as the Former Superman); Lex Luthor (villain); Brainiac (villain); Perry White; Lana Lang; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; New Superman [Ar-Val]
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Inker credit by Bob Bailey, 2005-01-19. Previously credited to George Klein. (Per Sandell ed.)

8 page Superman story "The Struggle of the Two Supermen! [part 3]"

Characters Superman; New Superman [Ar-Val] (death); Nor Kann (guest appearance); Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Jimmy Olsen; Brainiac (villain); Lex Luthor (villain); Kandor; Fortress of Solitude
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein