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Superman 255

SUPERMAN #255

Cover Date: August 1972
Cover Price: $0.20
Publication Date: 1972-06-08

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Cover Credits:
Art: Nick Cardy


Story: "The Sun of Superman" (16 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Action Comics #414; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #125)

Villain(s):

"the Cardiac Creature" (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

Sun-Thrivers (first appearance)
Dr. Paul Reese (first appearance; an authority on solar phenomena)
WGBS technicians (Mike named)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton (in flashback)
Space Sector 2814
Earth
Metropolis
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Krypton-Two (first appearance)
deep space

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #12/2 (May 1981)


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Second Story: ""Moon-Crossed" Love!" (8 Pages)
The Fabulous World of Krypton

Credits:

StoryMike Friedrich
ArtDick Giordano
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Ren-Re (first appearance; son of a sorcerer; inspires the myth of the Lovers' Stars, a pair of stars visible in the night sky of Krypton, considered an omen)
Tar-Lu (first appearance; daughter of a scientist; inspires the myth of the Lovers' Stars, a pair of stars visible in the night sky of Krypton, considered an omen)

Villain(s):

Bik-Re (first appearance; brother of Ren-Re; dies)

Other Character(s):

Master Re (first appearance; a sorcerer; father of Ren-Re and Bik-Re)
Beth-Na (first appearance; voice only)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2813
Krypton


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