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SUPERMAN #147

Cover Date: August 1961
Cover Price: $0.10

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Stan Kaye

Story: "The Great Mento!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	?
Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen

Lois Lane

Perry White

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents Superman #3 (April 2007) [black and white]

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Second Story: "Krypto Battles Titano!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Art	Al Plastino
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Story Reprinted in:

Showcase Presents Superman #3 (April 2007) [black and white]

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Third Story: "The Legion of Super-Villains!" (11 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Jerry Siegel
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Sheldon Moldoff
Lettering	Milt Snapinn
Editing	Mort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #27/2)

Guest Star(s):

Legion of Super-Heroes (the "Adult Legion;" see Comments)

Cosmic Man (Rokk Krinn)

Lightning Man (Garth Ranzz; also in flashback to origin)

Saturn Woman (Imra Ardeen)

Villain(s):

Lex Luthor (last in issue #146/2; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #28)

Legion of Super-Villains (first appearance of team; see Comments)

Cosmic King (Laevar Bolto; first appearance; also in flashback to origin; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63)

Lightning Lord (Mekt Ranzz; first appearance; also in flashback to origin; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63)

Saturn Queen (Eve Aries; first appearance; next in Adventure Comics #331)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis

Prison warden and guards

citizens of Venus (in flashback to events in the 30th century)

Location(s):

Space Sector 1771

Korbal (first appearance; in flashback to events in the 30th century)

Space Sector 2814

Earth

Metropolis

Saturn

Venus (in flashback to events in the 30th century)

Unidentified Space Sector

an unidentified planet

Comment(s):

The Legion of Super-Heroes first presented here are adult versions of the team, therefore from a possible future, as are the Legion of Super-Villains who make their first appearance.

Story Reprinted in:

Superboy Vol. 1 #147/6 (May-June 1968)

Adventure Comics #494 (December 1982)

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives #1 (1991)

Superboy #147 May-June 1968 Replica Edition ([January] 2003)

Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes #1 ([April] 2007) [black and white]

Showcase Presents Superman #3 (April 2007) [black and white]

Legion of Super-Heroes: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 (2017)

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