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SUPERMAN FAMILY #182
Cover Date: March-April 1977
Cover Price: $1.00
Publication Date: 1976-12-14
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan (signed)
Inks: Neal Adams (signed)
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Credits:
- Curt Swan (pencils)
- Neal Adams (inks)
- Dennis O'Neil (edits)
Credits:
| Story | Murray Boltinoff (credited as Bill Dennehy) |
| Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Inks | Vince Colletta |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in DC Super-Stars #12; next in Action Comics #469/2)
Guest Star(s):
- Superman (last in Superman Vol. 1 #309; next in the third story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- Big Al’s Rat Pack (first appearance; five members seen; attempt to bribe Matt Wilson to throw a game)
Other Character(s):
- Matt Wilson (first appearance; an ice hockey goalie)
- a police officer
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Pencils | John Calnan |
| Inks | Joe Giella |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Superbaby (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #196/3; next in New Adventures of Superboy #11/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jonathan Kent (last/next in ???)
- Martha Kent (last/next in ???)
Other Character(s):
- an unnamed alien pilot (first appearance; crash landed on Earth and taken by Superbaby as a pet)
Location(s):
- Smallville
- an unidentified jungle
- an unidentified desert
Credits:
| Story | Bill Kunkel |
| Pencils | Jose Delbo |
| Inks | Bob Layton |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Superman Vol. 1 #309; next in Action Comics #469/2)
Guest Star(s):
- Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in Action Comics #469/2)
Villain(s):
- SKULL (in between Superman Vol. 1 #301 and #310)
- Magnum (first appearance; a SKULL marksman, uses a self-dissolving dart filled with muscle toxin to cause wrestlers to lose fight)
Other Character(s):
- Jaws Jeffrey (first appearance; a wrestler; unknowingly winning bouts due to SKULL's interference)
- Chief Strong Bear (first appearance; a wrestler)
Location(s):
- Metropolis
- other wrestlers and spectators
Credits:
| Story | Paul Kupperberg |
| Pencils | Marshall Rogers |
| Inks | Frank Springer |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Clark Kent (tells the story of Jo-Mon of Krypton; last in Action Comics #469/2; next in the seventh story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jon Ross (last in Action Comics #460/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #315)
- Pete Ross (last in Action Comics #460/2; next in DC Comics Presents #13)
Villain(s):
- Al-Nei (first appearance; in flashback; an ancient Kryptonian governor and tyrant; dies)
- Dar-Ze (first appearance; in flashback; Al-Nei's second in command; dies)
- Al-Nei's armies (first appearance for all; in flashback)
Other Character(s):
- Jo-Mon (first appearance; in flashback; a Christ-like figure on ancient Krypton; dies)
- Bel-Der (first appearance; in flashback; leader of the Kryptonian rebels)
- Kam-Ya (first appearance; in flashback; Bel-der's second in command)
- Bel-Der's followers (first appearance for all; in flashback)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in flashback)
- The Continent of Lurvan
- Krypton (in flashback)
- Space Sector 2814
Comment(s):
- The events on Krypton were said to have taken place 4,000 years before the planet's destruction. Though it assumed the years stated were Earth years, it is not definitively stated.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The World of Krypton ([May] 2008)
- Superman: The Many Worlds of Krypton ([April] 2018)
Credits:
| Story | Jack C. Harris |
| Pencils | Mike Vosburg |
| Inks | Al Milgrom |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Supergirl (last in Superman Family #182/5; next in Super-Team Family #11)
Supporting Character(s):
- Betsy Lyman (in between issues #174 and #183)
Villain(s):
- Lex Luthor (last in DC Super-Stars #10; next in Secret Society of Super-Villains #6)
- Kolpan ("Agent K;" first appearance; one of Lex luthor's henchmen, embedded in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- escaping convicts at Metro Prison
Other Character(s):
- warden and guards at Metro prison
- staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (see Comments)
- New Athens Experimental School students
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- United States of America
- Pasadena, CA
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Metropolis
- Metro Prison
- a redwood forest, somewhere in Northwestern CA
- Santa Augusta, FL
- Pasadena, CA
- United States of America
- Mars
- Chryse Planitia region
- Earth
Comment(s):
- This story takes place on July 20, 1976, the first (real life) U.S. robotic landing on another planet by the Viking 1 spacecraft on Mars.
- One of the JPL staff (page 2, panel 3) resembles Jennette Kahn, at the time Publisher of DC Comics. The two other staffers may also be based on DC Comics staff.
Credits:
| Story | Bob Toomey |
| Pencils | John Calnan |
| Inks | Bob Smith |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Krypto (last in Superman Vol. 1 #309; next in #183/2)
Villain(s):
- Burt (first appearance; a bank robber)
- Harry (first appearance; a bank robber)
Other Character(s):
- customers and staff at the Soapstone Bank and Trust (first appearance for all)
- Merle and a friend (first appearance of both)
- Blue (first appearance; a junkyard dog that temporarily lost his confidence after seeing a flying dog)
- Blue's owner (first appearance)
Location(s):
- an unidentified city or town
Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Inks | Vince Colletta |
| Editing | Dennis O'Neil |
Feature Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Action Comics #469/2; next in Action Comics #468/2; temporarily possesses mind-reading powers)
Guest Star(s):
- Superman (last in the fourth story in this issue; next in Action Comics #468/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #469/2; next in Action Comics #468/2)
- Morgan Edge (last in Action Comics #469/2; next in Action Comics #468)
- Perry White (last in Action Comics #469/2; next in Action Comics #468/2)
- Steve Lombard (last in Action Comics #469/2; next in Action Comics #469)
Villain(s):
- three kidnappers (first appearance for all; brothers who want to use Nicky Heller's psychic powers to help crack open a safe)
Other Character(s):
- Nicky Heller (first appearance; a psychic who temporarily passes his powers to Jimmy Olsen)
- Chuck (first appearance; a WGBS staffer)
Location(s):