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SUPERMAN #78
Cover Date: September-October 1952
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1952-07-07
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye
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Credits:
| Story | Bill Finger |
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Action Comics #172; next in the second story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jor-L (in flashback; last/next in ???)
- Perry White (last in Action Comics #172; next in the second story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- a Snagriff (first appearance; also in flashback; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Kryptonians (in flashback)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- unidentified "Polar region"
- United States of America
- Earth
Comment(s):
- This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.
Credits:
| Story | Bill Finger |
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #60)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (in between Action Comics #172 and #173)
- Perry White (last in the first story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #60)
Villain(s):
- a criminal gang (first appearance for all; Vent named; gang tries to deduce who Superman is by targeting members of the Atlas Club to see if they are rescued by Superman or if they are invulnerable and therefore Superman)
Other Character(s):
- Atlas Club (first appearance; a strong men's club in Metropolis)
- Ajax Leonard (a circus strongman)
- Gus Fleming (a foundry worker)
- Jim Crain (a dockworker)
- Mike Wood (a blacksmith)
- "Mountain" Smith
- Chuck
- Ajax Leonard's daughter (first appearance)
- Mr. Wagner (first appearance; a television executive)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.
Credits:
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Comment(s):
- As this story is not part of DC Universe continuity, it will not be fully indexed.
Credits:
| Story | Edmond Hamilton |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in flashback in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #99; next in issue #87; also in flashback as Superboy, last/next ???)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lana Lang (last in flashback in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #109; next in Showcase #9)
- Lois Lane (in between issues #76 and #87)
- Perry White (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #53; next in issue #87)
Villain(s):
- "Lens" Lewis (first appearance; a criminal who filmed a robbery years earlier in Smallville, not realizing he caught proof of the Boy of Steel's secret identity)
- unnamed criminals
Other Character(s):
- Mr. Smith (first appearance; representing the Federal news syndicate)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- This story features the Silver Age versions of characters.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman Annual (Atlas Publishing #1963 (1963)
- Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers) (1971) [black and white]
- Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers) (1983)