Unofficial Superman Index

SUPERMAN #233

Cover Date: January 1971
Cover Price: $0.15
Publication Date: 1970-11-05

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Cover Credits:
Art: Neal Adams

Story: "Superman Breaks Loose" (15 Pages)

Credits:

Story	Dennis O'Neil
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Murphy Anderson
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Action Comics #398/2; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #107; is assigned to WGBS as a television reporter)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #108

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #395; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #107)

Perry White (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #138; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #107)

Steve Lombard (in between Action Comics #440 and #442)

Villain(s):

Quarrmer (first appearance; a sand creature)

Morgan Edge Clone (last in Action Comics #398)

a gang attempting to steal the mail rocket (first appearance of all)

Other Character(s):

Professor Bolden (first appearance; next in Action Comics #485)

Location(s):

Earth

Metropolis

Daily Planet

somewhere in the Western United States

Comment(s):

All Kryptonite on Earth is changed into iron.

The story continues in the next issue.

Story Reprinted in:

Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971 series) (1971) [black and white]

Action Comics #485 (July 1978) [with new framing pages]

Superman in the Seventies ([October] 2000)

Millennium Edition: Superman 233 (January 2001)

Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told #2 ([December] 2006)

DC Comics Classics Library: Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore ([January] 2009)

Solicitation:

A scientific experiment turns all the kryptonite on Earth to iron, as Clark Kent moves from newspaper to television journalism.

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Second Story: "Jor-El's Golden Folly" (7 Pages)

Credits:

Story	E. Nelson Bridwell
Art	Murphy Anderson
Editing	Julius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Jor-El (in between flashbacks, page 6, panels 1-3 and retelling of story on page 6, panel 4 to page 14, panel 7 in World of Krypton #1; next in flashback in Adventure Comics #304)

Supporting Character(s):

Lara Lor-Van (earliest chronological appearance; appearance retold in flashback in page 6, panel 4 to page 14, panel 7 of World of Krypton #1; next in World's Finest Comics #191)