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CATALOG RECORD

Action Comics #284

DC · Series began 1938 · January 1962

Dates

Cover date
January 1962
On sale
November 30, 1961
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Curt Swan, Henry Boltinoff, Jim Mooney, Sheldon Moldoff, Dick Spranginks: Sheldon Moldoff, George Klein, Henry Boltinoff, Stan Kaye, Jim Mooney, Charles Parisletters: Ira Schnapp, Joe Letterese, Henry Boltinoff, Milt Snapinnscript: Robert Bernstein, Henry Boltinoff, Mort Weisinger, Jerry Siegel

Stories

  • The Babe of Steel! · 14 pages

    Superman uses red kryptonite to become baby-sized in order to get through a hole in the Phantom Zone that threatens to become larger.

  • The Strange Bodies of Supergirl! · 11.67 pages

    Supergirl deals with the effects of three Red Kryptonite meteors, the last of which turns her into a mermaid. She visits Atlantis, where Jerro proposes to her, but neither of them realizes that Lori's sister Lenora is also in love with Jerro.

Reprinted in

Superman (1939), Supergirl Archives (2001), Showcase Presents: Superman (2005), Showcase Presents: Supergirl (2007), Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus (2016), Supergirl: The Silver Age (2017), DC Finest: Supergirl: The Girl of Steel (2025)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

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