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Issue Details

Issue #233
Published January 1971
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007].

Cover Details - "Kryptonite Nevermore!"

Characters Superman; green kryptonite
Synopsis Superman breaks free of kryptonite chains
Genre superhero
Pencils Neal Adams
Inks Neal Adams
Notes Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. [July 2007].
Reprinted in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman in the Seventies (DC, 2000 series) #nn [modified]; in Millennium Edition: Superman 233 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

15 page Superman story "Superman Breaks Loose"

Characters Superman; Professor Bolden; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Clark Kent; Morgan Edge; Perry White; Sand creature (origin); green kryptonite
Synopsis A scientific experiment turns all the kryptonite on Earth to iron, as Clark Kent moves from newspaper to television journalism.
Genre superhero
Script Denny O'Neil
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes No villain.
Reprinted in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #485 [with new framing pages]; in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman in the Seventies (DC, 2000 series) #nn; in Millennium Edition: Superman 233 (DC, 2001 series) #nn; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #11/1971

1 page Super-Turtle filler "The Eye-Test"

Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Reprinted in Millennium Edition: Superman 233 (DC, 2001 series) #nn

7 page The Fabulous World of Krypton story "Jor-El's Golden Folly"

Characters Jor-El; Kim-Da; Professor Ken-Dal; General Dru-Zod; Lara Lor-Van; Fal-Thu; Waz-Em; Krypton
Synopsis Ignoring the jeers of his colleagues, Kryptonian scientist Jor-El experiments with using anti-gravity to aid in space travel. But when astronaut Lara Lor-Van stows away in Jor-El's test rocket, the rocket crashes on Krypton's moon Wegthor, and Jor-El has to come to her rescue.
Genre super-hero; science fiction
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Murphy Anderson
Inks Murphy Anderson
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #40 (September 1983); in Millennium Edition: Superman 233 (DC, 2001 series) #nn (January 2001); in Superman: The World of Krypton (DC, 2008 series) #nn

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Notes letters page