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Issue Details

Issue #560
Published August 1998
Cover Price $1.95
Pages 36
Editing Maureen McTigue (Associate); Joey Cavalieri
Notes 1998 Diamond #30; Cover pencilled on blue-line paper and laid over the covers to Adv. of Superman #558 and 559.

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Tom Grummett
Colors Patrick Martin
Notes 1998 Diamond #30; Cover pencilled on blue-line paper and laid over the covers to Adv. of Superman #558 and 559.

22 page Superman story "The Super-Rivalry That Rocked Metropolis !"

Characters F: Superman; GS: Batman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White, Emil Hamilton, Jor-El, Lara, Kismet; GV: Toyman; GC: Pa Kent, Ma Kent, Lana Lang, Lex Luthor (all fb)
Synopsis Batman comes to Metropolis and makes time with Lois; Superman gets a big head when he is exposed to red kryptonite; Batman informs Supes that they are brothers and were both raised by the Kents; Superman's parents show up and ask him to return to what is left of Krypton society; Things begin to unravel with the arrival of Kismet.
Genre superhero
Script Karl Kesel (Plot); Jerry Ordway
Pencils Tom Grummett
Inks Denis Rodier
Colors Glenn Whitmore with Digital Chameleon Separations
Letters Albert DeGuzman
Notes Cont. in Action #747; Story is done completely in a Silver Age style.