Superman Supacomic #116

Published
April 1969
Page count
84
Cover price
20 cents
Colour
Black & white
Format
Comic series
Branding
Colour Comics Pty Ltd
 
Colour Comics Pty Ltd

Credits

Editing
, editor

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Show/hide Cover Unemployed Superman! (Superman) Cover, 1 page

""They don't need Superman anymore...I'm through, finished..." Unemployed Superman!"

Featuring

Feature
Superman
Genre
Superhero

Credits

Art
Carmine Infantino, line art

Reprint history

First print
United States
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #368 (October 1968)
Show/hide 1. The Unemployed Superman (Superman) Comic story, 13 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superman
Genre
Super-hero

Credits

Writing
Otto Binder, scripter
Art
Ross Andru, penciller
 
Mike Esposito, inker
Editing
Mort Weisinger, editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #368 (October 1968)
Show/hide 2. You, Too, Can Be a Super-Artist (Superman) Comic story, 16 pages

Featuring

Feature
Superman
Genre
Super-hero

Credits

Writing
Frank Robbins, scripter
Art
Ross Andru, penciller
 
Mike Esposito, inker
Editing
Mort Weisinger, editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Superman (DC, 1939 series) #211 (November 1968)
Also printed
Australia
Giant Superboy Album (Colour Comics, 1965 series) #5 ([June 1969?])
 (Single page only)
 
Australia
Superman Supacomic (Colour Comics, 1959 series) #119 ([July 1969])
 (Single page only)
Show/hide 3. Amazing Ratios (Amazing Ratios) Comic story, 1 page

"During the course of a working week, the building elevators in New York City travel a distance equivalent to three round trips to the moon..."

Featuring

Feature
Amazing Ratios
Genre
Fact

Reprint history

First print
Australia
Strange Adventures (Colour Comics, 1954 series) #18 ([February 1956?])
Amazing Ratios!

Synopsis

Science fact about distance traveled by elevators, mass of matter in space, candle illumination, and air in a cubic foot of atmosphere.

Notes

Begins: "During the course of a working week, the building elevators in New York City travel a distance equivalent to three round trips to the moon..."

Show/hide 4. Batman--Hunted or Haunted (Batman and Robin) Comic story, 14 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman and Robin
Genre
Super-hero

Credits

Writing
Gardner Fox, scripter
Art
Chic Stone, penciller [as Bob Kane]
 
Sid Greene, inker
Editing
Julius Schwartz, editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Detective Comics (DC, 1937 series) #376 (June 1968)
Show/hide 5. Gateway to Death (Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder) Comic story, 13 pages

Featuring

Feature
Batman with Robin the Boy Wonder
Genre
Super-hero

Credits

Writing
Gardner Fox, scripter
Art
Chic Stone, penciller [as Bob Kane]
 
Sid Greene, inker
Editing
Julius Schwartz, editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Batman (DC, 1940 series) #202 (June 1968)
Show/hide 6. Amazing Ratios Comic story, 1 page

"The full moon sheds 100 times as much light upon the Earth as all the stars combined..."

Featuring

Genre
Fact

Synopsis

Science information on light of the moon, energy in a thunderstorm, body heat, moons of Mars.

Show/hide 7. Escape of the Fatal Five Part 2: Mocked by the Master (Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes) Comic story, 22 pages

Featuring

Feature
Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes
Genre
Super-hero

Credits

Writing
Jim Shooter, scripter
 
Mort Weisinger, scripter
Art
Curt Swan, penciller
 
Jim Shooter, layouts
 
George Klein, inker
Text
Milt Snapinn, letterer [as Milton Snapinn] (1 page)
 
Morris Waldinger, letterer
Editing
Mort Weisinger, editor

Reprint history

First print
United States
Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #365 (February 1968)
Also printed
United States
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest (DC, 1980 series) #8 (April 1981)
 
United States
The Legion of Super-Heroes Archives (DC, 1991 series) #7 ([September] 1997)

Notes

Continues in the next issue "To the Death!!"


Status

AusReprints ID

  • 843

Entry created

  • 09/12/2003

Cover added

  • 09/12/2003

Index completed

  • 25/02/2005

Last updated

  • 02/05/2011