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SUPERMAN #240
Cover Date: July 1971
Cover Price: $0.15
Publication Date: 1971-05-13
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Cover Credits:
Art: Neal Adams
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Credits:
| Story | Dennis O'Neil |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Dick Giordano |
| Lettering | John Costanza |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #204)
Guest Star(s):
- I Ching (last in World's Finest Comics #204)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (in between issues #238 and #240)
Villain(s):
- Anti-Superman Gang (last/next in ???)
Other Character(s):
- Citizens of Metropolis (Martha and Gregory named)
- Metropolis firefighters
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Quarrmer (in flashback)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- Story continues in the next issue.
Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Art | Mike Kaluta |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Supporting Character(s):
- Mal-Va (first appearance; a science professor and creator of the Tempor, a timetravel device)
Villain(s):
- Zol-Mar (first appearance; a young apprentice scientist; dies)
Other Character(s):
- a janitor (first appearance)
- Thrax-Ol (first appearance; an inventor)
- a meteorologist (first appearance)
- Ron-Ru (first appearance; a proto-biologist; dies)
- Science Council of Krypton
- student protesters
Cameo Appearance(s):
- General Dar-Nx (first appearance; as a statue only; a leader of a military dictatorship one thousand years prior)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- This story takes place 50 years before Krypton's destruction.
Story Reprinted in:
- Best of DC #40/14 (September 1983)
- Superman: The World of Krypton ([May] 2008)
Solicitation:
- Under the Scarlet Jungle of Krypton lies a condemned device, with which scientist Mal-Va planned to send his assistant, Zol-Mar, into the past and then return him after ten minutes.