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Superman 243

SUPERMAN #243

Cover Date: October 1971
Cover Price: $0.25
Publication Date: 1971-08-12

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Dick Giordano


Story: "The Starry-Eyed Siren of Space!" (18 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
PencilsCurt Swan
InksMurphy Anderson
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in World's Finest Comics #205; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #115)

Other Character(s):

Kond (first appearance; an alien male; also in flashback; creates a physical body for himself patterned after Superman; see Comments)
Rija (first appearance; an alien female; also in flashback; creates a physical body for herself patterned after a Starry-Eyed Siren; see Comments)

Cameo Appearance(s):

the Starry-Eyed Sirens (first "appearance;" behind the scenes)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
various locations
Unspecified Space Sector
an unidentified planet (millions of years in the past)

Comment(s):

Due to the blast of a supernova, Superman is unknowingly blasted back in time millions of years where he meets Kond and Rija.

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #12/3 (May 1981)


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Second Story: "The Death-Trails of Krypton!" (6 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
PencilsBob Brown
InksMurphy Anderson
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Dol-Nd (first appearance; a chemo-engineer and inventor of flying wings; in flashback some 2000 years ago)

Villain(s):

an unidentified mass-murderer (first appearance; in flashback some 2000 years ago)

Other Character(s):

a boy and his father (first appearance of both)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Trolius (first mentioned; Krypton's mythological lord of the sky)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton

Comment(s):

This is a Fabulous World of Krypton story.
First appearance of the Trails of Trolius, Trollium radiation in Krypton's skies.


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Third Story (reprint): "The Battle of the Atoms!" (12 Pages)

Credits (new material only):

Reprint Comment(s):

Story reprinted from Superman Vol. 1 #38 (January-February 1946)


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