| Unofficial Superman Index |
SUPERMAN #178
Cover Date: July 1965
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1965-05-06
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein
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Credits:
| Story | Otto Binder |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #150; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashback to his unrecorded first encounter with the Duplorians)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #85/3; next in the second story in this issue)
- Perry White (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #85/3; next in the second story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- Duplorians (first appearance of all; an alien race of space conquerors; Torr the Terrible, their Emperor, named; also in flashbacks)
- other unidentified alien leaders
Other Character(s):
- Rogg (first appearance; a Duplorian, attempting to warn Superman of Project Earth-Doom; dies)
- Vikk (first appearance; a Duplorian, attempting to warn Superman of Project Earth-Doom; dies)
- Benjamin Dale (first appearance; an astronaut, with the same measurements as Superman)
- John Gray (first appearance; a police officer, with the same measurements as Superman)
- Martin Thayer (first appearance; an acrobat, with the same measurements as Superman)
- Rocky (first appearance; a boxer, with the same measurements as Superman)
- a scuba diver and a military police officer' (first appearance of both, having the same measurements as Superman)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Unidentified Space Sector(s)
- Duplor (first appearance; also in flashbacks)
- a dozen unidentified planets
Credits:
| Story | Leo Dorfman |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (temporarily loses his memory due to exposure to an alloy of gold kryptonite and red kryptonite; last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #58)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #86)
- Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #85/3; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #58)
- Perry White (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #58/2)
Villain(s):
- a gang of train robbers (first appearance of all)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Metropolis
- military officials
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Metropolis
- Washington, DC
- the Pentagon
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
- Konkoka (first mentioned)