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Issue Details

Issue #412
Published May 1972
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 52
Editing Murray Boltinoff; E. Nelson Bridwell (Assistant)

Cover Details - "Secret of the First Metropolis!"

Characters Superman; Josdin
Genre Super-hero
Pencils Nick Cardy
Inks Nick Cardy

16 page Superman story "Secret of the First Metropolis!"

Characters Superman; Josdin (villain); Jessica Sloan
Genre Super-hero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Murphy Anderson

6 page Superman story "The Menace of the Sky-Scorchers"

Characters Superman; Paul Stewart
Genre Super-hero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils John Calnan
Inks Murphy Anderson

2 page text article "The Superman Legend"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Letters typeset
Notes Features the origin of Superman and additional facts; a blue-lined image of Superman is behind the text on the first page, and a full-color Superman symbol rests at the bottom of the second page.

13 page Eclipso story "Duel of the Divided Man"

Characters Eclipso; Bruce Gordon; Pofessor Bennett; Mona Bennett; Doctor Karko; Colonel Gray
Synopsis Bruce Gordon and Profesor Bennett go into orbit in an experimental space capsule. When it looks like Eclipso could take over Gordon permanently, Gordon tries to sacrifice himself.
Genre superhero
Script Bob Haney
Pencils Lee Elias
Inks Lee Elias
Reprinted from House of Secrets (DC, 1956 series) #62 (September-October 1963)

1 page Where the Action Is letters page

Letters typeset
Editing Murray Boltinoff