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ACTION COMICS #252
Cover Date: May 1959
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1959-03-31
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Al Plastino
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Credits:
| Story | Robert Bernstein |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #41/3; next in Action Comics #252/3)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #9/3; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #37)
- Lois Lane (last in flashback in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #41/3; next in World's Finest Comics #101)
- Perry White (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #9/3; next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #37/3)
Villain(s):
- Metallo (John Corben; first appearance; dies)
Other Character(s):
- Edith
- Professor Vale
Location(s):
- Metropolis
- Fort Taber
- Police Headquarters
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman Annual #2/2 ([Winter] 1960) [page 8, panel 6 through page 9, panel 2 cut]
- Superman Vol. 1 #217/5 (June-July 1969)
- DC Special Series #19 (Fall 1979)
- DC Silver Age Classics Action Comics 252 (1992)
- Millennium Edition: Action Comics 252 (July 2000)
- Showcase Presents Superman #1 ([September] 2005)
Credits:
| Story | Robert Bernstein |
| Art | Howard Sherman |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Janu the Jungle Boy (in between issues #247/3 and #256/2)
Villain(s):
- Corporal Gabin
- unnamed gunmen
Location(s):
- El Basur
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Silver Age Classics Action Comics 252 (1992)
- Millennium Edition: Action Comics 252 (July 2000)
Credits:
| Story | Mort Weisinger, Otto Binder |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in first story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #101; also in flashback)
Supporting Character(s):
- Supergirl (Kara Zor-El; first appearance; last chronological appearance in the flashback in issue #358/2; next in issue #253/2; also in flashback)
Other Character(s):
- Miss Hart (first appearance)
- Zor-El (first appearance; Kara's father and Clark's paternal uncle; last chronological appearance in the flashback in issue #358/2)
- Alura Zor-El (first appearance; Kara's mother and Clark's paternal aunt; name not given in this story; last chronological appearance in the flashback in issue #358/2)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Metropolis
- Midvale (first appearance)
- Midvale Orphanage (first appearance)
- Earth
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman Annual Vol. 1 #1/3 ([Summer] 1960)
- Action Comics #334 (March 1966)
- Secret Origins #2 (April-May 1973)
- DC Special Series #19 - Secret Origins of Super-Heroes (Fall 1979)
- The Great Superman Comic Book Collection (1981)
- Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers) (1983)
- DC Silver Age Classics Action Comics 252 (1992)
- Giant Superman Annual #1 Replica Edition (1998) [as reprinted in Superman Annual #1]
- Millennium Edition: Action Comics 252 (July 2000)
- Supergirl Archives #1 (2001)
- Superman in the Fifties ([September] 2002)
- Showcase Presents Superman #1 ([September] 2005)
- Showcase Presents: Supergirl #1 ([November] 2007)
- Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #1 ([June] 2016)
- Supergirl: The Silver Age Vol. 1 (2017)
Solicitation:
- Witness the origin and first appearance of Supergirl in "The Supergirl from Krypton!" Kara Zor-El, Superman's long-lost cousin, arrives on Earth and adopts a secret identity to aid Superman in the ongoing fight for truth and justice!