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Action Comics 265

ACTION COMICS #265

Cover Date: June 1960
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1960-04-28

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "The Superman from Outer Space!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJohn Forte
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45/3; next in the second story in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Supergirl (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #45/3; next in Superman Vol. 1 #138)

Other Character(s):

Professor Heath (first appearance)
a Professor Heath robot (first appearance)
hospitalized children (first appearance for all)
a Clark Kent robot (destroyed)
Hyper-Man of Zoron (Chester King; first appearance; dies)
Lydia Long of Oceania (first appearance)
citizens of Oceania (first appearance for all)
a Hyper-Man robot (first appearance)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Fortress of Solitude
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Oceania (first appearance)
Fortress of Secrecy (first appearance)
Macropolis (first appearance)
Zoron (first appearance; in flashback)

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #207 (June 1968)
Showcase Presents Superman #2 (2006)


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Second Story: "The Day Supergirl Revealed Herself!" (13 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtJim Mooney
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (temporarily loses her memory due to red kryptonite particles in a comet; takes the identity "Gloria Smith;" last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #46)

Guest Star(s):

Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in Brave and the Bold #30)

Villain(s):

a robot warrior from another world (first appearance)
a gang of bank robbers (first appearance of all; Duke and Max named)

Other Character(s):

Mary Jane (first appearance; a young girl at Midvale Orphanage)
Professor Ralph Evans (first appearance; a scientist)
Ellen Evans (first appearance; his wife and coworker)
a Linda Lee robot
citizens of Metropolis
citizens of Smallville

Location(s):

Fortress of Solitude
The Bottle City of Kandor
Midvale
Midvale Orphanage
Metropolis
Smallville

Story Reprinted in:

Supergirl Archives #1 (2001)
Showcase Presents: Supergirl #1 ([November] 2007)
Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ([June] 2016)
Supergirl: The Silver Age Vol. 1 (2017)


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