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SUPERMAN #142

Cover Date: January 1961
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1960-11-03

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "Lois Lane's Secret Helper!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #114; next in the second story this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Krypto (last in Action Comics #270/2; next in the third story this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #271; next in the third story this issue)
Lucy Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #49/3; next in flashback in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #54/3)
Perry White (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #49/3; next in the second story this issue)

Guest Appearance(s):

Supergirl (last in Action Comics #271/2; next in the third story this issue)

Other Character(s):

Maria (first appearance)
her new fiancee (first appearance)
two castaways (first appearance of both)
Hans (first appearance; proposes to Gretta)
Gretta (first appearance)
two friends of Hans and Gretta (first appearance of both)
Mr. Baldwin (first appearance; janitor in Lois Lane's apartment building)
Beauty (first appearance; a lost dog)
a dogcatcher (first appearance)
a police officer (first appearance)

Location(s):

Germany (possibly)
Metropolis
Venice, Italy
two deserted islands

Story Reprinted in:

Limited Collectors' Edition #C-31 (October-November 1974)
Showcase Presents Superman #2 (2006) [black and white]


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Second Story: "Superman Meets Al Capone!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

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

Supporting Character(s):

Perry White (in between the first and third stories in this issue; also in earliest chronological appearance in 1921, next chronological appearance in flashback in World's Finest Comics #171)

Villain(s):

Al Capone
Capone's gang ("Silky" Hale named)
Titano (in between issues #138 and #147/2)

Other Character(s):

Cyrus Martin (publisher of the Chicago Tribune)
a Chicago police officer

Location(s):

Chicago, IL (in 1921)
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #197/2 (June-July 1967)
Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers) (1971) [black and white]
Showcase Presents Superman #2 (2006) [black and white]


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Third Story: "Flame-Dragon From Krypton" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #22)

Guest Star(s):

Batman (last in World's Finest Comics #114; next in Detective Comics #287)
Krypto (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #50)
Supergirl (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #50)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #49/3; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #22)
Lois Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #22)
Perry White (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #22)

Villain(s):

a Kryptonian Flame-Dragon (first appearance; next in issue #151/3)

Other Character(s):

Superman Robots (destroyed)
an oil field guard

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Fortress of Solitude
Gotham City
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

World's Finest Comics #142/2 (June 1964) [1 page cut]
Showcase Presents Superman #2 (2006) [black and white]


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