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Famous First Edition, Issue #C-61

Publisher: DC

Series Title: Famous First Edition Vol: 8

Issue: #C-61


Publish Date: [March] 1979
type: cover
Genre: superhero
Cover Characters: Superman
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Famous First Edition, Vol. 8 No. C-61 (DC, 1978) page 51 featuring Superman by Albert DeGuzman, et. al. Comic Art
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Famous First Edition, Vol. 8 No. C-61 (DC, 1978) page 51 featuring Superman by Albert DeGuzman, et. al.

Art Details

Artist: Albert DeGuzman (All)
Jerry Siegel (Writer)
Joe Shuster (Layouts)
Media Type: Pen and Ink
Art Type: Interior Page
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 476
Comments: 2
Added to Site: 10/20/2021

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Member Since: November 2008

Page: 51
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Issue Breakdown

Type Title Creators Characters Synopsis
cover Superman
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword Foreword Letters: typeset
cover reprint (on interior page) Superman
advertisement Letters: typeset
comic story Two-Page Origin of Superman Superman; Ma (Mary) Kent (intro); Pa Kent (intro); Krypton After the planet Krypton is blown up, a couple finds a baby in a rocket and adopt him. The young boy grows up to be Superman.
comic story Clark Kent Gets a Job Clark Kent; George Taylor (intro, not named); Bea Carroll (villain) Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Star, but is turned down until Superman stops a lynching and Clark phones in the story. Then Superman gets singer Bea Carroll to confess to the murder of Jack Kennedy.
comic story The Coming of Superman Superman; George Taylor (intro, not named); Lois Lane (intro); Daily Star; Evelyn Curry; Bea Carroll (villain); Butch Matson (villain); Senator Barrows (villain); Alex Greer (villain) Superman delivers a witness to the governor to stop an execution, then stops a wife-beater. Later Superman, as Clark Kent goes out with Lois, but she earns the wrath of Butch Matson and Superman must save her. Finally, Clark is assigned a story on the South American republic of San Monte. He heads to Washington DC to find out who is behind Senator Barrows pushing legislation which will embroil the United States in a war in Europe by grabbing lobbyist Alex Greer and scaring the truth out of him.
promo (ad from the publisher)
comic story Revolution in San Monte Superman; Alex Greer (villain); Emil Norvell (villain); Lois Lane; Lola Cortez; George Taylor (cameo) Clark Kent and Lois Lane go to San Monte in South America to cover the war brewing. Superman proves the war is being fomented by munitions manufacturers.
promo (ad from the publisher) Letters: typeset
promo (ad from the publisher) Superman & Action Comics Invite You to Become a Charter Member of the Supermen of America Letters: typeset
comic story Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength--! Superman
comic story The Blakely Mine Disaster Clark Kent; George Taylor; Stanislaw Kober; Thornton Blakely (villain) Clark investigates accidents in a shoddily run mine.
promo (ad from the publisher)
comic story Superman Plays Football Superman; Coach Randall (villain); Tommy Burke; Mary; Wallace Dodd (cameo) Superman impersonates a football player to straighten out a fixed game.
activity Acquiring Super-Strength
text article Boys and Girls: Meet the Creators of the One and Only Superman - America's Greatest Adventure Strip! Letters: typeset Superman (inset); Jerry Siegel (photo); Joe Shuster (photo)
text story Biff Dugan Letters: typeset Superman; Biff Dugan (intro, villain); Sergeant Blake After Superman eludes Sergeant Blake by changing to Clark Kent, Clark blackmails the detective into allowing him a jailhouse interview with Biff Dugan. When Dugan escapes, Clark switches to Superman and returns Dugan to his cell.
promo (ad from the publisher) Letters: typeset Zatara; Tong; Superman (inset)
advertisement Letters: typeset
illustration Pin-Up Superman
illustration Pin-up of Current Superman Superman
illustration Pin-up of Future Superman Superman

 

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