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SUPERMAN #61
Cover Date: November-December 1949
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1949-08-29
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye
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Credits:
Art | Al Plastino |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Action Comics #138; next in the second story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #138; next in the second story in this issue)
Villain(s):
Other Character(s):
- owners and employees of various radio stations
Location(s):
- China
- Shanghai
- United States of America
Comment(s):
- This story features characters from Earth-Two.
Credits:
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (in between the first and the third story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (in between the first and the third story in this issue)
- Perry White (last in Action Comics #138; next in the third story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- a group of racketeers
- two members of the Rocky Riordan Gang (first appearance for both)
Other Character(s):
- Peggy Wilkins (first appearance; Lois Lane's roommate)
- Mr. Crump (first appearance; a butcher)
- Chuck (first appearance; a Daily Planet photographer)
- the cast of the play The Murdock Murder (first appearance for all)
- the mayor of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Hong Kong
- United Kingdom
- London, England
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet
- Metropolis Stadium
- San Francisco, CA
- Metropolis
Comment(s):
- Lois tries life as a blond and then a redhead.
- This story features characters from Earth-Two.
Credits:
Story | Bill Finger |
Art | Al Plastino |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #39; also in flashback as an infant to destruction of Krypton))
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #139)
- Perry White (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #139)
- Jor-El (in flashback to destruction of Krypton)
- Lara (in flashback to destruction of Krypton)
- Pa Kent (in flashback to finding baby Kal-El)
- Ma Kent (in flashback to finding baby Kal-El)
- Mooch Carlin (first appearance; a carnival swindler)
Villain(s):
- Swami Riva (Dan Rivers; first appearance; next in Superman Family #202/2; believes he has the power to hex Superman, actually posses kryptonite)
- Big Eddie's Mob (first appearance for all)
- Hijack Hal's Mob (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- Harry Peters (first appearance; a rock collector; found the meteor with the kryptonite)
- a jeweler at the Acme Jewelry Shop (first appearance)
Location(s):
- Earth
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- Smallville (in flashback)
- United States of America
- Krypton
Comment(s):
- Superman first learns he is from Krypton.
- This is the first appearance of kryptonite in comics, though it would be colored red.
- This story takes place on Earth-Two.
Story Reprinted in:
- The Greatest Golden Age Stories Ever Told ([March] 1990)
- Superman in the Forties ([December] 2005)