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Issue Details

Issue #239
Published June-July 1971
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing E. Nelson Bridwell
Notes Giant #G-84. Theme= Superman's Greatest Battles!

Cover Details - "Superman's Greatest Battles!"

Characters Superman; Lex Luthor; Titano; Hercules; Lois Lane
Synopsis Vignettes of battles
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Murphy Anderson
Colors Jack Adler
Letters Gaspar Saladino; Typeset
Notes Giant #G-84. Theme= Superman's Greatest Battles! Colorist and Letterer credits from Carl Gafford, who worked in the DC production department at this time. [Mike Nielsen 7/2010]

13 page Superman story "Hercules in the 20th Century!"

Characters Gods of Olympus [Jupiter; Mercury; Vulcan; Venus; Achilles]; Hercules [Roger Tate]; Superman; Lois Lane; Lex Luthor; Perry White; Frank Hall
Synopsis Lex Luthor builds a time-machine to bring Hercules to the present to use him to stop Superman. Hercules gets wise to Luthor's plan and helps Superman stop Luthor, and then decides to stay in the present and falls in love with Lois Lane.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Art credited solely to Wayne Boring in issue.
Reprinted from Action Comics #267 (August 1960)

13 page Superman story "Superman's Battle with Hercules!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Hercules [Roger Tate](villain); Gods of Olympus [Jupiter; Mercury; Vulcan; Venus; Achilles]
Synopsis Hercules wants to marry Lois, but Lois won't marry him while Superman is around, so Hercules tries to get rid of Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted From Action Comics #268 (September 1960)

8 page Superman story "Titano the Super-Ape!"

Characters Titano (villain); Superman; Lois Lane; Toto the chimp; green kryptonite
Synopsis Lois befriends the intelligent chimp Toto just before he is sent into orbit inside a satellite. While in orbit, the satellite passes by a collision of a uranium metorite and a kryptonite meteorite, which cause the chimp to grow to enormous size and shot kryptonite beams from his eyes. Because of his transformation, Lois re-names him Titano. Though not meaning any harm, Titano poses a threat to humanity, and Superman, Lois and the army trap the giant chimp, planning to execute him. But Lois devises a plan to block Totano's kryptonite vision so Superman can send him into the distant past where he can't harm anyone.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #127 (February 1959)

17 page Superman story "The Showdown Between Luthor and Superman!"

Characters Lex Luthor (villain); Superman; Clark Kent; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lexor (intro); Krypton (hallucination); Jor-El (hallucination); Lara (hallucination)
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes First appearance Lexor
Reprinted From Superman #164 (October, 1963)

2 page Map of Krypton illustration

Characters Krypton
Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils Sal Amendola
Inks Sal Amendola
Reprinted in Amazing World of Superman, Metropolis Edition (DC, 1973 series) #nn

2 page Giant Metropolis Mailbag letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters typeset