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2[Winter] 1960
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Superman Annual #2

DC · [Winter] 1960 · on sale 1960-11-10

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Identification plate

Series
Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series)
Issue
#2
Publication date
[Winter] 1960
Key date
1960-12-00
On-sale date
1960-11-10
Indicia publisher
All American Printing Co. Inc.
Price
$0.25
Pages
84
Rating
Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0-cover1pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Stan Kaye; letters: Ira SchnappSuperman; Titano; The Thing from 40,000 A.D.; Metallo; Brainiac; Bizarro #1; The Invulnerable Enemy
1Table of Contentstable of contents1letters: typeset
2The Invulnerable Enemycomic story12script: Otto Binder; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan KayeSuperman; The Invulnerable Enemy; Barnum Bolton; Lex Luthor (villain); Lois Lane; Perry White
3The Menace of Metallo!comic story12script: Robert Bernstein; pencils: Al Plastino; inks: Al PlastinoSuperman; Lois Lane; Metallo [John Corben] (intro, villain); Professor Vale; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen
4Titano the Super-Ape!comic story7.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan KayeSuperman; Titano (intro, villain, origin, formerly Toto); Lois Lane
5Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane; Superman; Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsenpromo (ad from the publisher)0.33
6The Thing from 40,000 A.D.!comic story9.67script: William Woolfolk; pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Stan KayeSuperman; The Thing from 40,000 A.D. (intro, villain, death); Lois Lane; Perry White
7Superboy; Action Comics; Adventure Comicspromo (ad from the publisher)0.33
8The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel Chapter I: The Amazing Bizarrocomic story7.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: George Papp; inks: George PappSuperboy; Bizarro #1 (intro, origin); Professor Dalton; Martha Kent; Superboy Robots; Melissa
9Superman's Super Visiontext article0.33letters: typeset
10The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel] Chapter II: The Runaway Super-Creaturecomic story7.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: George Papp; inks: George PappSuperboy; Bizarro #1; Martha Kent; Melissa
11Glossary of Kryptonian Namestext article0.33pencils: Wayne Boring; inks: Wayne BoringJor-El; Lara
12The Boy of Steel versus the Thing of Steel] Chapter III: The Battle with Bizarrocomic story7.67script: Otto Binder; pencils: George Papp; inks: George PappSuperboy; Bizarro #1; Melissa
13-promo (ad from the publisher)0.33
14How the Super-Family Came to Earth from Kryptoncomic story1
15The Super-Duel in Spacecomic story13script: Otto Binder; pencils: Al Plastino; inks: Al PlastinoSuperman; Brainiac (intro, villain); Lois Lane; Koko; Professor Kimda (intro); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Superbaby (flashback); Superboy (flashback)
16Page 2 of the Two-Page Origincomic story1script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Joe Shuster; inks: Joe ShusterSuperman
17-cover reprint (on interior page)1pencils: Curt Swan, Wayne Boring; inks: Stan KayeSuperboy; Bizarro #1; The Thing from 40,000 A.D.; Lois Lane; The Invulnerable Enemy; Brainiac

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