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| Superman 172, October 1964! |
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SUPERMAN 172, October 1964, was published around August 6, 1964. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of 12¢. Mort Weisinger was the editor, and the cover was pencilled by Curt Swan, inked by George Klein and lettered by Ira Schnapp.
- (15:50) THE NEW SUPERMAN (24 pgs.), written by Edmond Hamilton, pencilled by Curt Swan and inked by George Klein. The story was divided into three 8-page parts.
- (26:48) Part II: CLARK KENT - FORMER SUPERMAN
- (36:43) Part III: THE STRUGGLE OF THE TWO SUPERMEN
Also highlighted in this episode are the issue's ads and other features, including the short article, HOW PERRY WHITE HAS HELPED SUPERMAN and the METROPOLIS MAILBAG letter column (53:25). The episode begins with the MY PULL LIST segment, where I review the comic books I ordered from Discount Comic Book Service which carried the December 2017 cover date. and were released during the month of October 2017.
Next episodes: SUPERMAN FAMILY COMIC BOOKS COVER DATED OCTOBER 1964: PART II: SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE 52, PART III: ACTION COMICS 317 & PART IV: SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN 80!
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Wow! I vividly remember reading this issue when it was originally published, having bought it at my local newsstand. You've really been hitting my Silver Age "sweet spot" lately. I was 8 years old in 1964, and I think that 8-year-olds were the target audience at that time. When revisiting a Silver Age story, I usually revert to my 8-year-old self. Thanks for taking me back there.
ReplyDeleteI remember, when I first read this story, being quite upset by the purple and green "Former Superman" costume. I always associated primary colors with heroes and secondary colors, like purple and green, with villains. I know heroes didn't always wear primary colors nor villains secondary colors, but it was true often enough to form a "rule" in my young mind. Certainly Ar-Val wasn't really a villain, but he wasn't exactly a hero, at least not in the Superman mold, and "Former Superman" was clearly no villain, so these costumes helped remind this young viewer not to judge to quickly by appearances, an important lesson in those Silver Age stories.
One thing that puzzled me, at first, when I revisited this story, was that both Brainiac and Luthor were unaffected by the gas in Brainiac's ship because they both wore nose filters. I wondered why Brainiac wore nose filters, since, a few months before this story, back in Superman #167, Brainiac was revealed to be a living computer/android, but then, I recalled that, in that earlier story, Brainiac had hypnotized Luthor to make him forget his true nature, so he probably wore nose filters here to keep up that deception.
As a Philadelphia Eagles fan since their last championship season (In the pre-Super Bowl days of 1960, when they defeated the Green Bay Packers to win the NFL Championship), I thank you for your "Go Eagles!" at the end of this episode.