Issue | #222 |
Published | December 1969 |
Cover Price | 0.25 |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Characters | Superman |
Genre | superhero |
Characters | Superman (origin retold); Halk Kar [Earth-2's Mon-El] (intro); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Wrecker Ross (intro, villain); Lois Lane |
Synopsis | When Halk Kar crashes on Earth, the note he carries in Jor-El's handwriting makes Superman suspect that Halk Kar is his older brother. But when Halk Kar joins Superman in his pursuit of "Wrecker" Ross, Halk Kar receives an electric shock and remembers that he is actually a space traveller from Thoron who met Jor-El on Krypton just before it exploded. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Al Plastino |
Inks | Al Plastino |
Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #80 (January-February 1953) [originally titled Superman's Big Brother] |
Characters | Superman; Sally Selwyn (intro); Digby Selwyn [Sally's father] (intro); Lori Lemaris (guest appearance); Bart Benson (intro, villain); Lois Lane (cameo) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Siegel |
Pencils | Al Plastino |
Inks | Al Plastino |
Reprinted | from Superman #165 (November 1963) |
Characters | Superman; Kal-El II [Superman's son] (intro); Jor-El II [Superman's son] (intro), Superman's wife (unrevealed) (all imaginary); Fortress of Solitude; Kandor |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | George Klein |
Notes | an imaginary story |
Reprinted | from Superman #166 (January 1964) |
Characters | Superman; Jor-El II (as Nightwing); Kal-El II (as Flamebird); Kandor; Zan Zarn (statue); Mrn Abbas (statue); Jor-El I (statue); Fortress of Solitude; Gann Artar (villain) (all imaginary) |
Synopsis | Superman's sons become Nightwing II and Flamebird II |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | George Klein |
Reprinted | from Superman #166 (January 1964) |
Characters | Superman; Jor-El II; Kal-El II; Jor-El; Lara; Krypton; Gann Artar (villain) (all imaginary); green kryptonite; Kandor (cameo); Fortress of Solitude; Val-El (statue); Sul-El (statue); Tala-El (statue); Krypto's father; Phantom Zone |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | George Klein |
Reprinted | from Superman #166 (January 1964) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Al Schwartz |
Pencils | Al Plastino |
Inks | Al Plastino |
Notes | John Sikela removed from pencils and inks credits. Sikela mistakenly added earlier to credits through misattribution of reprint source to Superboy #36. |
Reprinted | from Superboy #62 (January 1958) |