Issue | #239 |
Published | June-July 1971 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 68 |
Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Notes | Giant #G-84. Theme= Superman's Greatest Battles! |
Characters | Superman; Lex Luthor; Titano; Hercules; Lois Lane |
Synopsis | Vignettes of battles |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Colors | Jack Adler |
Letters | Gaspar Saladino; Typeset |
Notes | Giant #G-84. Theme= Superman's Greatest Battles! Colorist and Letterer credits from Carl Gafford, who worked in the DC production department at this time. [Mike Nielsen 7/2010] |
Characters | Gods of Olympus [Jupiter; Mercury; Vulcan; Venus; Achilles]; Hercules [Roger Tate]; Superman; Lois Lane; Lex Luthor; Perry White; Frank Hall |
Synopsis | Lex Luthor builds a time-machine to bring Hercules to the present to use him to stop Superman. Hercules gets wise to Luthor's plan and helps Superman stop Luthor, and then decides to stay in the present and falls in love with Lois Lane. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Notes | Art credited solely to Wayne Boring in issue. |
Reprinted | from Action Comics #267 (August 1960) |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Hercules [Roger Tate](villain); Gods of Olympus [Jupiter; Mercury; Vulcan; Venus; Achilles] |
Synopsis | Hercules wants to marry Lois, but Lois won't marry him while Superman is around, so Hercules tries to get rid of Superman. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | From Action Comics #268 (September 1960) |
Characters | Titano (villain); Superman; Lois Lane; Toto the chimp; green kryptonite |
Synopsis | Lois befriends the intelligent chimp Toto just before he is sent into orbit inside a satellite. While in orbit, the satellite passes by a collision of a uranium metorite and a kryptonite meteorite, which cause the chimp to grow to enormous size and shot kryptonite beams from his eyes. Because of his transformation, Lois re-names him Titano. Though not meaning any harm, Titano poses a threat to humanity, and Superman, Lois and the army trap the giant chimp, planning to execute him. But Lois devises a plan to block Totano's kryptonite vision so Superman can send him into the distant past where he can't harm anyone. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #127 (February 1959) |
Characters | Lex Luthor (villain); Superman; Clark Kent; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lexor (intro); Krypton (hallucination); Jor-El (hallucination); Lara (hallucination) |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | George Klein |
Notes | First appearance Lexor |
Reprinted | From Superman #164 (October, 1963) |
Characters | Krypton |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Pencils | Sal Amendola |
Inks | Sal Amendola |
Reprinted | in Amazing World of Superman, Metropolis Edition (DC, 1973 series) #nn |
Script | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Letters | typeset |