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Issue Details

Issue #285
Published March 1975
Cover Price 0.25
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 - "Search for the Impossible Man!"

Characters Superman; bystanders
Synopsis Superman being strangled by plant but bystanders can't see plant.
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]

14 page Superman story Search For the "Impossible" Man

Characters Roger Rivers (villain); Superman; Clark Kent; Josh Coyle; Roy Raymond; Perry White; Steve Lombard; Lois Lane; Lola Barnett; Batman (as Bruce Wayne)
Genre superhero
Script Elliot S! Maggin
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Tex Blaisdell

6 page Private Life of Clark Kent story "The Kid With the Million-Dollar Smile!"

Characters unnamed Museum thieves (villains); Superman (as Clark Kent); Jason Fleece; Lola Barnett; Selma Fleece
Genre superhero
Script Martin Pasko
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Bob Oksner
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset
Notes Includes a letter from Jim Steranko