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Issue Details

Issue #142
Published January 1961
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Flame Dragon from Krypton!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Kryptonian Flame Dragon
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

8 page Superman story "Lois Lane's Secret Helper!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Krypto (guest star); Supergirl [Kara Zor-El] (cameo); Lucy Lane; Super-Brat (Cameo; Imaginary); Perry White
Synopsis Krypto decides to try to make Superman fall in love with Lois Lane.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

8 page Superman story "Superman Meets Al Capone!"

Characters Superman; Al Capone (villain); Perry White; Titano (cameo); green kryptonite; Cyrus Martin; "Silky" Hale (gangster)
Synopsis While returning from the past, Superman is affected by Titano's kryptonite eye-blasts and it causes him to land in Chicago in the 1920's. Here he meets a young Perry White and helps him get his first scoop, and also stops Al Capone.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Time-travel story
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #197 (June-July 1967); in Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

10 page Superman story "Flame-Dragon From Krypton!"

Characters Superman; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson] (cameo; as statue); Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Krypto (cameo); a Kryptonian Flame-Dragon (intro, villain); Fortress of Solitude; Superman robots; Lois Lane; Perry White; "Plates" Finnegan (villain); red kryptonite; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis A Kryptonian Flame-Dragon makes it way to Earth. When it swallows a Red Kryptonite meteor Superman must stay away from the Flame-Dragon for fear the Red Kryptonite will effect him also.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #142 (June 1964); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2