Dates
- Cover date
- [Winter] 1960
- On sale
- November 10, 1960
- Pages
- 84
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Invulnerable Enemy · 12 pages
A petrified spaceman is brought back to life by Lex Luthor and rampages through Metropolis collecting pieces of broken glass along the way.
- The Menace of Metallo! · 12 pages
Criminal John Corben, who is nearly killed in an auto accident, is given a robot body powered by uranium. When he is hit by bullets meant for Lois, she assumes he is really Superman. Recognizing a good idea, Corben impersonates Superman to collect more uranium. Running out of sources of uranium, Corben learns that he can also be powered by kryptonite. But he doesn't realize that the kryptonite he steals is fake, prop kryptonite and collapses.
- Titano the Super-Ape! · 7.67 pages
Lois befriends the intelligent chimp Toto just before he is sent into orbit inside a satellite. While in orbit, the satellite passes by a collision of a uranium metorite with a kryptonite one, which causes the chimp to grow to enormous size and shoot kryptonite beams from his eyes. Because of this change, Lois re-names him Titano. Though not meaning any harm, Titano poses a threat to humanity and Superman, so the army traps the giant chimp, planning to execute him. But Lois devises a way to block Titano's kryptonite vision so Superman can send him into the past where he cannot harm anyone.
- The Thing from 40,000 A.D.! · 9.67 pages
A protoplasmic being appears in Metropolis with the power to assume any form - including Superman's, complete with super powers, this inevitably results in a super-showdown with the Man of Steel.
- The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel Chapter I: The Amazing Bizarro · 7.67 pages
Professor Dalton's duplicator ray produces flawed results including an imperfect Superboy - Bizarro, who is befriended by sightless girl Melissa.
- Superman's Super Vision · Superman · 0.33 pages
- The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel] Chapter II: The Runaway Super-Creature · 7.67 pages
Superboy attempts to subdue Bizarro with green kryptonite, but discovers that he is immune to it, he then uses a dummy of Melissa to lure dim witted Bizarro into a military trap.
- Glossary of Kryptonian Names · 0.33 pages
- The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel] Chapter III: The Battle with Bizarro · 7.67 pages
The army cannot stop Bizarro but his will is sapped when he realises that blind Melissa only likes him because she cannot see his face. Superboy finds his imperfect duplicate's one weakness but the desperately unhappy Bizarro goes meekly to meet his fate, the resulting explosion restoring Melissa's sight. Superboy wonders if Bizarro knew that his demise would cure Melissa's blindness.
- How the Super-Family Came to Earth from Krypton · Superman · 1 pages
- The Super-Duel in Space · 13 pages
While on an experimental rocket, Clark and Lois encounter the alien Brainiac, who plans to shrink and bottle the great cities of Earth and then use them to repopulate his planet. Superman gets inside Brainiac’s ship when the villain snatches Metropolis and there finds a bottle with the Kryptonian city of Kandor. He enters the bottle and with the help of a scientist there restores the cities of Earth while Brainiac lies in suspended animation for his trip home. Because there is not enough power to restore Kandor, Superman places the city in his Fortress, as Brainiac rockets away empty-handed.
- Page 2 of the Two-Page Origin · 1 pages
Reprinted in
Superman Supacomic (1959), World of Krypton (1982), Superman (1982)