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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
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Credits:
Story | Cary Bates |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Editing | Julius 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
- Earth
- 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)
Credits:
Story | Cary Bates |
Pencils | Bob Brown |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Editing | Julius 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):
Comment(s):
- This is a Fabulous World of Krypton story.
- First appearance of the Trails of Trolius, Trollium radiation in Krypton's skies.
Credits (new material only):
Reprint Comment(s):
- Story reprinted from Superman Vol. 1 #38 (January-February 1946)