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Superman 115

SUPERMAN #115

Cover Date: August 1957
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1957-06-16

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Cover Credits:
Art: Al Plastino


Story: "The Midget Superman" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #89; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in World's Finest Comics #89; next in the third story in this issue)


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Second Story: "Jimmy Olsen's Lost Pal" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Showcase #9/3; next in the third story in this issue)
Perry White (last in Action Comics #230; next in the third story in this issue)

Villain(s):

"Many-Faces" Fulton (first appearance; a criminal impersonator; poses as Perry White and then each of the subscribers visited by Jimmy Olsen)
Blacky (first mentioned; off-panel only; "Many-Face's" accomplice, abducts the real Perry White)

Other Character(s):

John Shaw (first appearance; a lighthouse keeper; one of six Daily Planet subscribers to be interviewed by Jimmy Olsen; see Comments)
Dr. Xavier Todd (first appearance; a speleologist working with nuclear powered machinery)
Ben Hugh (first appearance; a forest ranger)
Otis Blake (first appearance; a zoo keeper)
Henry Reed (first appearance; a meteorologist at a glacier weather station)
Professor Clyde Ott (first appearance; an astronomer)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet
various unspecified locations (presumably in North America)

Comment(s):

As "Many-Faces" Fulton poses as each of the six Daily Planet subscribers, all but Professor Clyde Ott are not truly seen.
Superman finds a secluded mountain valley with thousands of green kryptonite meteorites that he meticulously catapults into space.
A week passes over the course of this story.


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Third Story: "The Three Substitute Supermen" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Coleman
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #22; poses as "Buster," "Winters" and "Mr. Lathrop / Sam Barton;" also in flashback to a few months earlier; last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #22)
Lois Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #22)
Perry White (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #22)

Villain(s):

The Organizer (first appearance; a crime mogul)
his gang (first appearance for all)
Sam Barton (first mentioned; an escaped convict, body found by Superman some months earlier)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet


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