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Issue Details

Issue #27
Published August 1982
Cover Price 0.95
Pages 100
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru
Inks Dick Giordano

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 Maggin
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Bob Oksner
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #292 (October 1975)

12 page Superman story "Superman's Super Hold-Up!"

Characters Luthor; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #59 (July-August 1952)

8 page Superman story "The Most Dangerous Door in the World!"

Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Jack Abel
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #213 (January 1969)

7 page Superman story Success is a Heartbeat Away! (2nd chap of "The Most Dangerous Door in the World")

Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Jack Abel
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #213 (January 1969)

3 page text article "The Luthor Story"

Script E. Nelson Bridwell

12 page Superman story "The Death of Luthor!"

Characters Superman; Lex Luthor (villain); Lexor; Ardora; Green Kryptonite; Brainiac (cameo)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #318 (November 1964)

12 page Superman story "The Condemned Superman!"

Characters Superman; Ardora; Lexor; Lex Luthor (villain)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #319 (December 1964)

15 page Superman story "Luthor's Hammer of Hate!"

Characters Lex Luthor; Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Morgan Edge; Anton Falenni; Dr. Thames
Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Murphy Anderson
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #423 (April 1973)

14 page Superman story "Lex Luthor--Super Scalp Hunter!"

Characters Lex Luthor (villain); Superman; Clark Kent; Perry White; Steve Lombard; Ali; Lois Lane; Carol
Genre superhero
Script Elliot Maggin
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #282 (December 1974)