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Action Comics 265

ACTION COMICS #265

Cover Date: June 1960
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1960-04-28

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Superman from Outer Space!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Forte
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45/3; next in the second story in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Supergirl (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45/3; next in Superman Vol. 1 #138)

Other Character(s):

Professor Heath (first appearance)
a Professor Heath robot (first appearance)
hospitalized children (first appearance for all)
a Clark Kent robot (destroyed)
Hyper-Man of Zoron (Chester King; first appearance; dies)
Lydia Long of Oceania (first appearance)
citizens of Oceania (first appearance for all)
a Hyper-Man robot (first appearance)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Arctic Circle
Fortress of Solitude
United States of America
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Oceania (first appearance)
Fortress of Secrecy (first appearance)
Macropolis (first appearance)
Zoron (first appearance; in flashback)

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #207 (June 1968)
Showcase Presents Superman #2 (2006)


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Second Story: "The Day Supergirl Revealed Herself!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJim Mooney
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (temporarily loses her memory due to red kryptonite particles in a comet; takes the identity "Gloria Smith;" last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in Brave and the Bold #30)

Villain(s):

a robot warrior from another world (first appearance)
a gang of bank robbers (first appearance of all; Duke and Max named)

Other Character(s):

Mary Jane (first appearance; a young girl at Midvale Orphanage)
Professor Ralph Evans (first appearance; a scientist)
Ellen Evans (first appearance; his wife and coworker)
a Linda Lee robot
citizens of Metropolis
citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Arctic Circle
Fortress of Solitude
The Bottle City of Kandor
United States of America
Midvale
Midvale Orphanage
Metropolis
Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Supergirl Archives #1 (2001)
Showcase Presents: Supergirl #1 ([November] 2007)
Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ([June] 2016)
Supergirl: The Silver Age Vol. 1 (2017)


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