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Superman 238

SUPERMAN #238

Cover Date: June 1971
Cover Price: $0.15
Publication Date: 1971-04-15

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Carmine Infantino (signed), Murphy Anderson
Inks: Murphy Anderson (signed)


Story: "Menace at 1000 Degrees!" (15 Pages)

Credits:

StoryDennis O'Neil
PencilsCurt Swan
InksMurphy Anderson
LetteringJohn Costanza
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Superman (in between issues Action Comics #400/2 and #403)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in World's Finest Comics #202; next in Superman Vol. 1 #240)
Lois Lane (last in World's Finest Comics #202; next in Action Comics #403)

Villain(s):

Quarrmer (in between issues #237 and #241)
Quig (first appearance; a terrorist)
other terrorists (first appearance for all)
Morgan Edge Clone (last in issue #237; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #114)

Other Character(s):

Coast Guard officers (first appearance for all)
the staff of Project Magma (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Fortress of Solitude
United States of America
Metropolis
WGBS Building
Daily Planet
an offshore drilling rig (first appearance; site of Project Magma)

Story Reprinted in:

DC Comics Classics Library: Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore ([January] 2009)


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Second Story: "A Name Is Born" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
ArtGray Morrow
LetteringGray Morrow
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Kryp (first appearance; in flashback; a male space explorer; homeworld unknown)
Tonn (first appearance; in flashback; a female cosmo-biologist; homeworld unknown)

Other Character(s):

Du-Vor (first appearance; a teacher of Krypton)
a unnamed teacher of Level-One students (first appearance)
Kryptonian children

Location(s):

Krypton
unidentified locations (in flashback to the ancient past and a few years before Krypton's destruction)

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #40 (September 1983)
Superman: The World of Krypton ([May] 2008)
Superman: The Many Worlds of Krypton ([April] 2018)

Solicitation:

Du-Vor tells a fellow teacher the story of how two space explorers came to be stranded on ancient Krypton and began the Kryptonian race.


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