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Issue Details

Issue #276
Published June 1974
Cover Price 0.20
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [August 2007]

Cover Details - "The Fight to Decide the Super-Hero Championship of the World!"

Characters Superman; Captain Thunder
Synopsis Superman and Captain Thunder fly head-on towards each other as crowd flees.
Genre superhero
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [August 2007]
Reprinted in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #6/1975

20 page Superman story "Make Way for Captain Thunder!"

Characters Captain Thunder (villain); Superman; Willie Fawcett; Clark Kent; Merokee (flashback); Lois Lane; the Monster League of Evil (flashback); a Dr. Sivana lookalike (flashback)
Synopsis Willie Fawcett finds himself lost in Superman's universe and that whenever he changes into his super-powered alter ego of Captain Thunder he becomes evil. Superman helps him figure out the way to return ot his universe and shake the evil influence of the Monster League of Evil.
Genre superhero
Script Elliot S! Maggin
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Bob Oksner
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #16; in Superman in the Seventies (DC, 2000 series) #nn; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #6/1975

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset
Notes Includes reference to crediting the artwork in "Mr. Mxyzplk Returns" in Superman #272 to John Sikela based on info from Jerry Bails.