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Issue Details

Issue #292
Published October 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 - "The Luthor Nobody Knows!"

Characters Superman; Superboy; Lex Luthor
Synopsis Split cover shows young Luthor threatening revenge on Superboy for accident causing baldness, adult Luthor shoots Superman.
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Oksner
Inks Bob Oksner
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) #5/1976

13 page Superman story "The Luthor Nobody Knows!"

Characters Lex Luthor (villain, origin); Superman; Clark Kent; Roy Raymond; Perry White; Superboy; Smallville Police Chief Douglas Parker; green kryptonite
Genre superhero
Script Elliot S! Maggin
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Bob Oksner; Terry Austin? (backgrounds)
Notes Origin of Luthor
Reprinted in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #27; in Supermann (WIlliams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #5/1976

1 page Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset

5 page The Private Life of Clark Kent story "I Don't Like Your Face!"

Characters Duke Calvert (villain); Superman (as Clark Kent); Morgan Edge; "Fishbait" Flotsky
Genre superhero
Script Martin Pasko
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Allen Milgrom
Notes Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics [May 2008].
Reprinted in Supermann (WIlliams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #5/1976