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SUPERMAN #281
Cover Date: November 1974
Cover Price: $0.20
Publication Date: 1974-08-13
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Cover Credits:
Art: Nick Cardy (signed)
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Chapter Two: "...and the Mission Begins!"
Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Bob Oksner |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman Family #167; next in Justice League of America #114)
Guest Star(s):
- Vartox (first appearance; super-hero of the planet Valeron; next in Action Comics #475)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Superman Family #167/2)
- Elyra (first appearance; Vartox's wife; dies; name revealed in ???)
Villain(s):
- Frank Sykes (first appearance; kills the cashier at Rosie's Cafe which in turn kills her "bionic twin," Vartox's wife, Elyra)
Other Character(s):
- Valeronians (first appearance; an alien race)
- cashier at Rosie's Cafe (first appearance; the "bionic twin" of Vartox's wife, Elyra; dies)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Unidentified Space Sector
- Valeron (first appearance)
Story Reprinted in:
- Best of DC #32 (January 1983)