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Issue Details

Issue #222
Published December 1969
Cover Price 0.25
Pages 68
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero

10 page Superman story "Superman's Lost Brother!"

Characters Superman (origin retold); Halk Kar [Earth-2's Mon-El] (intro); Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Wrecker Ross (intro, villain); Lois Lane
Synopsis When Halk Kar crashes on Earth, the note he carries in Jor-El's handwriting makes Superman suspect that Halk Kar is his older brother. But when Halk Kar joins Superman in his pursuit of "Wrecker" Ross, Halk Kar receives an electric shock and remembers that he is actually a space traveller from Thoron who met Jor-El on Krypton just before it exploded.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #80 (January-February 1953) [originally titled Superman's Big Brother]

12 page Superman story "The Sweetheart Superman Forgot!"

Characters Superman; Sally Selwyn (intro); Digby Selwyn [Sally's father] (intro); Lori Lemaris (guest appearance); Bart Benson (intro, villain); Lois Lane (cameo)
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted from Superman #165 (November 1963)

9 page Superman story "Jor-El II and Kal-El II"

Characters Superman; Kal-El II [Superman's son] (intro); Jor-El II [Superman's son] (intro), Superman's wife (unrevealed) (all imaginary); Fortress of Solitude; Kandor
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes an imaginary story
Reprinted from Superman #166 (January 1964)

8 page Superman story "The New Nightwing and Flamebird!"

Characters Superman; Jor-El II (as Nightwing); Kal-El II (as Flamebird); Kandor; Zan Zarn (statue); Mrn Abbas (statue); Jor-El I (statue); Fortress of Solitude; Gann Artar (villain) (all imaginary)
Synopsis Superman's sons become Nightwing II and Flamebird II
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Superman #166 (January 1964)

9 page Superman story "Kal-El II's Mission to Krypton!"

Characters Superman; Jor-El II; Kal-El II; Jor-El; Lara; Krypton; Gann Artar (villain) (all imaginary); green kryptonite; Kandor (cameo); Fortress of Solitude; Val-El (statue); Sul-El (statue); Tala-El (statue); Krypto's father; Phantom Zone
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted from Superman #166 (January 1964)

10 page Superboy story "The Secret of Superboy's Sister"

Genre superhero
Script Al Schwartz
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes John Sikela removed from pencils and inks credits. Sikela mistakenly added earlier to credits through misattribution of reprint source to Superboy #36.
Reprinted from Superboy #62 (January 1958)