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Superman 117

SUPERMAN #117

Cover Date: November 1957
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1957-09-08

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "Clark Kent, Man of Mystery" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Action Comics #233; next in the second story in this issue; "sleepwlking" under the inflence of an Atlantean relic, attempts to "kill" Perry White)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #233; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #24/3; next in the second story in this issue)

Other Character(s):

various letter writers to Superman (first appearance for all; a shuin, a young girl whose mother had recently passed; a young boy wishing for superstrength)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet

Comment(s):

Perry White's 25th anniversay at the Daily Planet is celebrated.


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Second Story: "The Secret of Fort Superman" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (in between Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #24/3 and #25)
Lois Lane (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)
Perry White (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Villain(s):

Lex Luthor (last in World's Finest Comics #88; next in Action Comics #236)
Dimension Outlaws (first appearance for all; a trio of aliens from "the Fourth Dimension")
a "Krypton-Beast" (first appearance?)

Location(s):

Fort Superman (first appearance)
Museum of Menace
Metropolis
Daily Planet


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Third Story: "The Man with the Zero Eyes" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Plastino
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #234; exposed to an alien "ice virus," finds his x-ray vision is now ice-vision)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #234)
Perry White (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #234)

Villain(s):

Rex Chalmers and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Tom Lampert (first appearance; owns a sporting goods store)
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet


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