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Superman 188

SUPERMAN #188

Cover Date: July 1966
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1966-05-03

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: Part I: "The School for Superman Assassins!" (24 Pages)
Part II: "Zunial's Secret Weapon"

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
ArtAl Plastino
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #158; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #66)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #337; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #66)

Villain(s):

Galaxy Crimeteers (first appearance; an interstellar gang of plunderers, based on Zarria)
The Kill Kid (Kangor; first appearance; a failed student at the School for Superman Assassins)
Murder Man (Zunial; first appearance; a student at the School for Superman Assassins)
Oral (first appearance; a failed student at the School for Superman Assassins)
other unidentified members

Other Character(s):

a Superman android (first appearance; used as practice for the students at the School for Superman Assassins; destroyed)
The Peace Vigilantes (first appearance; a heroic group based on Zarria, Headman Thorz named)
citizens of Zarria (first appearance of all)
an actor in a play about Superman (first appearance)
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unidentified Space Sector
Zarria (first appearance)
Crimeteer Fortress (first appearance)
Peace Vigilantes Headquarters (first appearance)

Comment(s):

Superman dies from kryptonite poisoning but is later revived.


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