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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published January-February 1953
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 44
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details - "Superman's Big Brother!"

Characters Superman; Halk Kar
Genre superhero
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino

10 page Superman story "Superman's Big 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
Notes Many elements from this story re-used in "Superboy's Big Brother" in Superboy (DC, 1949 series) #89.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #222 (December 1969) [retitled there as "Superman's Lost Brother!"]; in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn

10 page Superman story "The Big Noise of Metropolis!"

Characters Superman; Big-Noise Nelson (intro, villain); Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye

2 page text story "The Last Days of Daniel Boone"

Characters Daniel Boone
Genre Historical
Letters typeset
Notes Daniel Boone bio

10 page Superman story "The Men of Fire"

Characters Superman; the "flame men" (intro, villains, fire-beings); Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye