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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published November 1983
Cover Price 1.25 USD
Pages 100
Editing Nicola Cuti

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Dick Giordano

12 page Superman story "The Legion of Super-Creatures!"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #326 (July 1965)

8 page Superman story "The Midget Menace"

Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #102 (January 1956)

10 page Superman story "The Thing from 40,000 A.D.!"

Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #87 (February 1954)

12 page Superman story "The Invulnerable Enemy"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #226 (March 1957)

9 page Superman story "The Interplanetary Circus!"

Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #145 (May 1961)

9 page Jimmy Olsen story "Jimmy Olsen's Private Monster!"

Characters Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; TNT Gang; Lucy Lane; Lois Lane
Synopsis A monster appears whenever Jimmy uses his signal watch.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Reprinted from Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen (DC, 1954 series) #43 (March 1960)

12 page Superman story "The Creature of 1,000 Disguises"

Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #234 (November 1957)

14 page Superman story "The Super-Human Bomb!"

Characters Superman; Brainiac; Grax; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Inks credit is given to Wayne Boring in the GCD listing for the original story.
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #342 (October 1966)

10 page Superman story "A Doghouse for Superman!"

Genre superhero
Script William Woolfolk
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #84 (September-October 1953)

1 page (backcovers) *do not use* / *please fix*

Pencils Howard Bender
Inks Dick Giordano