Superman
#249
(March 1972)
DC,
1939 Series
- Volume
- 34
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly, (semi-monthly June, December)
- On-sale Date
- 1972-01-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #79.
Introducing... Superman's Latest and Greatest Foe... Terra-Man!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-1119
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Terra-Man; Nova
- Synopsis
- Tattered and wounded Superman founders in air as Terra-Man and flying horse Nova attack.
- Reprints
-
in Super-Homem (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #17 [cover] -
in Superman (Interpresse, 1969 series) #62 -
in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #1/1973 ([januar] 1973) -
in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #2/1973 (30 januaria 1973) -
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #167 (Circa July 1973) -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #4/1975 (15. Februar 1975) -
in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, 1983 series) (1983) - in Superman in the Seventies (DC, 2000 series) ([December] 2000)
-
Indexer Notes
Art credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
The Challenge of Terra-Man
Superman / comic story / 18 pages
- Job Number
- S-1071
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Terra-Man (villain); Superman [Clark Kent]; Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback); Superboy (flashback); Nova; Krypton (flashback)
- Synopsis
- The appearance of a stagecoach on the streets of Metropolis heralds the arrival of Terra-Man, a character seemingly from a spaghetti western, yet with super-scientific weapons. Superman must contain Terra-Man while dealing with a kryptonian condition known as birth-spells which effects the metabolism of Kryptonians every six years on their Kryptonian birthdays.
- Reprints
-
in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #48 (décembre 1972) - in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #167 (Circa July 1973)
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #4/1975 (15. Februar 1975)
- in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #1 (février 1979)
- in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #43 (1982)
- in Superman in the Seventies (DC, 2000 series) ([December] 2000)
-
Indexer Notes
Story includes pastiches of Archie and Edith Bunker from TV's All in the Family.
The Origin of Terra-Man
Terra-Man / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- S-1099
- Genre
- superhero; western-frontier
- Characters
- The Collector (villain); Jess Manning; Terra-Man [Toby Manning]; Nova
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #5/1975 (1. März 1975)
- in Limited Collectors' Edition (DC, 1972 series) #C-39 (October-November 1975)
- in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #1 (février 1979)
- in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #95-96 (août 1985)
-
High Man on a Flagpole!
Superman / comic story / 13 pages
- Job Number
- S-1096
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Quent (villain); Superman; Lois Lane; Tom Trent; Arnold Carlyle; Clark Kent; Perry White
- Reprints
- from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #46 (May-June 1947)
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Martin O'Hearn. Inks credit from Bob Hughes.
[no title indexed]
Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 0.67 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-1129
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Introducing... Superman's Latest and Greatest Foe... Terra-Man!
Superman -
1.
The Challenge of Terra-Man
Superman -
2.
The Origin of Terra-Man
Terra-Man -
3.
High Man on a Flagpole!
Superman -
4.
[no title indexed]
Metropolis Mailbag -
5.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- Bruno Andreacchi
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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