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Issue Details

Issue #158
Published January 1963
Cover Price 0.12 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Invasion of the Super-People!"

Characters Superman; Than Ol (villain); Phantom Zone inmates (villains); Kandor; Fortress of Solitude; Phantom Zone
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn

9 page Superman story "Invasion of the Mystery Super-Men! [Superman in Kandor part 1]"

Characters Superman; Nor Kann [a Kandorian scientist] (intro); Than Ol (intro, villain); Boz-Tol (intro, villain); Jax-Ur (villain); Prof. Vakox (villain); Phantom Zone inmates (villains); Kandor; Fortress of Solitude; Lois Lane; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Brainiac (flashback)
Synopsis Superman and Jimmy Olsen travel to Kandor to discover how normal sized Kandorians are on Earth and why they are attacking Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes 3-part novel
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #140 (September 1971)

8 page Superman story "The Dynamic Duo of Kandor! [Superman in Krypton part 2]"

Characters Superman (as Nightwing, intro, origin); Jimmy Olsen (as Flamebird, intro, origin); Van-Zee (guest star); Nor Kann [a Kandorian scientist] (intro); Than Ol (intro, villain); Boz-Tol (intro, villain); Jax-Ur (villain); Prof. Vakox (villain); Phantom Zone inmates (villains); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Kandor; Lyla Lerrol (flashback)
Synopsis Superman and Jimmy Olsen take the secret identites of Nightwing and Flamebird so they can track down Than-Ol's raiders and stop his scheme to enlarge Kandor.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #140 (September 1971)

9 page Superman story "The City of Super-People! [Superman in Kandor part 3]"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Flamebird [Jimmy Olsen]; Nightwing [Van-Zee]; Nor-Kanh; Jor-El (statue); Lara (statue); Nor Kann [a Kandorian scientist] (intro); Than Ol (intro, villain); Boz-Tol (intro, villain); Jax-Ur (villain); Prof. Vakox (villain); Phantom Zone inmates (villains); Superman Emergency Squad (guest stars); Kandor; Fotress of Solitude; Phantom Zone; green kryptonite; Lori Lemaris (cameo)
Synopsis Than Ol succeeds in enlarging Kandor, but Superman must re-shrink it before Than-Ol's process destroys it completely.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #140 (September 1971)