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SUPERMAN #156

Cover Date: October 1962
Cover Price: $0.12

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: "The Last Days of Superman!" (25 Pages)
Part I: "Superman's Death Sentence"
Part II: "The Super-Comrades of All Time"
Part III: "Superman's Last Day of Life"

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton
PencilsCurt Swan
InksGeorge Klein
LetteringJoe Letterese
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #128; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #64; also in flashback as baby Kal-El on Krypton, last/next in ???)

Guest Star(s):

Batman (last in World's Finest Comics #128; next in Detective Comics #308)
Robin (last in World's Finest Comics #128; next in Detective Comics #308)
Legion of Super-Heroes: (team last in Superboy Vol. 1 #100/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Bouncing Boy (last in Action Comics #287/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Brainiac 5 (last in Action Comics #287/2; next in Adventure Comics #303/2
Chameleon Boy (last in flashback in Superboy Vol. 1 #100/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Cosmic Boy (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #100/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Invisible Kid (last in flashback in Adventure Comics #323; next in Adventure Comics #304/2)
Lightning Lad (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #100/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2
Saturn Girl (last in Superboy Vol. 1 #100/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Shrinking Violet (last in flashback, page 13 panel 1 of Adventure Comics #301/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Sun Boy (in between Adventure Comics #300/2 and #301/2)
Triplicate Girl (last in Action Comics #287/2; next in Adventure Comics #301/2)
Mon-El (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #62)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63/3; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #36/2)
Jor-El (in flashback; last/next in ???)
Krypto (next in Action Comics #293)
Lana Lang (in between Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #35 and #36/2)
Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63/2; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #36/2)
Lori Lemaris (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63; next in issue #157/2)
Perry White (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #63/2; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #36/2)
Supergirl (last in Action Comics #292; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #64)

Other Character(s):

Superman Emergency Squad (last/next in ???)
Superman robots
Tharb-El (first appearance; a biologist on Krypton; no noted relation to Jor-El and Kal-El)
a doctor

Cameo Appearance(s):

Jonathan Kent (in flashback)
Martha Kent (in flashback)
Lyla Lerrol (in flashback)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton
Kryptonopolis (also in flashback)
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Antarctica
Arctic Circle
Fortress of Solitude
Kandor
Atlantis
United States of America
Gotham City
Metropolis
Legion Headquarters (in the 30th Century)
Daily Planet
Smallville
an unidentified desert
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
two unidentified planets (first appearance for both; destroyed)
Phantom Zone
Timestream

Comment(s):

First appearance of Virus X.

Story Reprinted in:

Limited Collectors' Edition #C-52 (1977)
Superman in the Sixties ([September] 1999)
Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told #1 ([August] 2004)
Showcase Presents Superman #3 (April 2007) [black and white]


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