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SUPERMAN #106

Cover Date: July 1956
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1956-05-08

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye


Story: "Superman's First Exploit" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Action Comics #217; next in the second story in this issue; also in flashback, last in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #255; next in Superboy Vol. 1 #133)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #217; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (last in Action Comics #217; next in the second story in this issue)

Location(s):

Metropolis

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Annual #1 ([Summer] 1960)
Superman Vol. 1 #215/2 (April 1969)
Giant Superman Annual #1 Replica Edition ([October] 1998) [as reprinted in Superman Annual #1]


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Second Story: "The Thefts of Clark Kent" (8 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Plastino
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (as Clark Kent, retrieves six meteors which are actually green kryptonite covered in lead; in between the first and the third stories in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #13/3; next in the third story in this issue)
Lois Lane (in between the first and the third stories in this issue)
Perry White (last in the first story in this issue; next in Action Comics #218)

Villain(s):

"Bullets" Barton (first appearance; also under the alias "Walter Brown")

Other Character(s):

a group of astronomers (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet


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Third Story: "The Super-Outlaw of Metropolis" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Coleman
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingWhitney Ellsworth

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #218)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in the second story in this issue; next in issue #107/3)
Lois Lane (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #218)

Villain(s):

Lex Luthor (creates a rare metal alloy suit which can absorb power expended by Superman; last in Action Comics #210; next in issue #110/3)
Luthor's henchmen (first appearance for all three; unnamed)

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Atlantic Ocean (site where Superman had previously dropped green kryptonite)
United States of America
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Story Reprinted in:

Best of DC #36/8 (May 1983)


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