Superman #239

(June-July 1971)

Hercules in the 20th Century! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Wayne Boring

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

N-265

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Gods of Olympus [Jupiter; Mercury; Vulcan; Venus; Achilles]; Hercules [Roger Tate]; Superman; Lois Lane; Lex Luthor; Perry White; Frank Hall

Synopsis:

Lex Luthor builds a time-machine to bring Hercules to the present to use him to stop Superman. Hercules gets wise to Luthor's plan and helps Superman stop Luthor, and then decides to stay in the present and falls in love with Lois Lane.

Reprinted:

• from Action Comics #267 (August 1960)

Indexer Notes

Art credited solely to Wayne Boring in issue.

Superman's Battle with Hercules! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Wayne Boring

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

N-255

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Superman; Lois Lane; Hercules [Roger Tate](villain); Gods of Olympus [Jupiter; Mercury; Vulcan; Venus; Achilles]

Synopsis:

Hercules wants to marry Lois, but Lois won't marry him while Superman is around, so Hercules tries to get rid of Superman.

Reprinted:

• From Action Comics #268 (September 1960)

Titano the Super-Ape! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Otto Binder

Pencils:

Wayne Boring

Inks:

Stan Kaye

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

N-268

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Titano (villain); Superman; Lois Lane; Toto the chimp; green kryptonite

Synopsis:

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.

Reprinted:

• from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #127 (February 1959)

The Showdown Between Luthor and Superman! (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Edmond Hamilton

Pencils:

Curt Swan

Inks:

George Klein

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

N-266 and N-267

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Lex Luthor (villain); Superman; Clark Kent; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lexor (intro); Krypton (hallucination); Jor-El (hallucination); Lara (hallucination)

Reprinted:

• From Superman #164 (October, 1963)

Indexer Notes

First appearance Lexor

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Map of Krypton / illustration / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

E. Nelson Bridwell

Pencils:

Sal Amendola

Inks:

Sal Amendola

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Job Number:

N-279

Content Information

Characters:

Krypton

Reprinted:

• in Amazing World of Superman, Metropolis Edition (DC, 1973 series) #nn

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Giant Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

E. Nelson Bridwell

Pencils:

?

Inks:

?

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Job Number:

N-278