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SUPERMAN #102

Cover Date: January 1956
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1955-10-25

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "Superman for Sale" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in flashback in issue #250/2; next in the second story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in flashback in issue #250/2; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (last in flashback in issue #250/2; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Edward Jorgens (first appearance; a retred businessman, secrtly a crimelord)
Henry Drebbin (first appearance; a retred businessman, secrtly a crimelord)
Paul Quillan (first appearance; a retred businessman, secrtly a crimelord)
Chip Wilson (first appearance; a wanted criminal; $4,000 reward issued)
"Ace" Hyatt (first appearance; a fugitive gangster; $8,000 reward issued)
"Trigger" Hyatt (first appearance; brother of "Ace")
two escaped convicts (first appearance for both; $12,000 reward issued)

Other Character(s):

Barclay (first appearance; a Treasury Department official; working with Suerman to create the "Superman Stock Comapny" as a guise to find the stashed loot of three crimelords)
prison guards
the prison warden

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Family #174/4 (December 1975-January 1976)


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Second Story: "The Midget Menace" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in Action Comics #212)
Perry White (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Villain(s):

Thurans (first appearance; an alien race of comparatively tiny size; attempting to gain Superman's powers to conquer the planet Varda)

Other Character(s):

Vardans (first mentioned; an alien race)
atomic power plant workers (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Thura (first appearance)
Varda (first appearance)

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #42/2 (November 1983)


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Third Story: "The Million-Dollar Mistake" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Plastino
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #212; also n various random flashbacks)

Supporting Character(s):

Perry White (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #212)

Villain(s):

Soapy Martin (first appearance; a con-artist under the guise of Daily Planet sports editor "Don Kelton")
a "philantropist" friend of Soapy Martin (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Marian Colby (first appearance; in flashback; Daily Planet cooking editor)
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet


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