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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published February 1979
Cover Price 0.40 USD
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details

Characters Superman; Aquaman; Zan; Gleek
Genre superhero
Pencils Ramona Fradon (signed)
Inks Bob Smith (signed)

17 page Super Friends story "Trapped in Two Times!"

Characters Batman; Robin; Aquaman; Superman; Gleek; Wonder Woman; Professor Carter Nichols; Zan; Jayna; Time Trapper (known by Wonder Woman as the Time Master); Queen Hippolyte; Lyla Ler-Rol; Krypton; Bahom
Synopsis The Time Trapper wrecks Professor Nichols time machine and sends Jayna to Krypton just hours before it explodes and Zan into the future of a world about to be destroyed by it's red sun.
Genre superhero
Script E. Nelson Bridwell; Nick Pascale (Credited as "special thanks to Nick Pascale")
Pencils Ramona Fradon
Inks Bob Smith
Colors Jerry Serpe
Letters Ben Oda
Notes Superman mentions the Legion of Super-Heroes having fought the Time Trapper, thus establishing that the Legion does exist in the Super Friends continuity. Story continues next issue.

1 page The Penguin; Hostess advertisement "Penguins on Parade"

Characters The Penguin; Gotham City police officers
Synopsis The Penguin distracts people with marching penguin puppets while stealing an antique sword, but is himself distracted by Hostess Fruit Pies planted by the police.
Genre Superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Vince Colletta
Notes Ad for Hostess Fruit Pies.

1 page Super Fans letters page

Script E. Nelson Bridwell
Letters Typeset
Notes Includes Question Seventeen for "The Second Great Superman Movie Contest".

1 page Daily Planet promo (ad from the publisher)

Script Fred Hembeck; ?
Pencils Fred Hembeck
Inks Fred Hembeck
Letters Fred Hembeck; Typeset
Notes Includes a Hembeck strip.