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SUPERMAN #53
Cover Date: July-August 1948
Cover Price: $0.10
Publication Date: 1948-05-03
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Wayne Boring
Inks: Stan Kaye
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Credits:
- (as Lois Lane) (script)
- Typeset (letters)
- Mort Weisinger (edits)
Comment(s):
- "Lois Lane" writes an article in honor of Superman's 10th anniversary of appearing in Action Comics #1 listing a number of his real world impacts.
Credits:
| Story | Bill Finger |
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (origin retold in flashbacks)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jor-El (in flashbacks; dies)
- Lara (in flashback; dies)
- John Kent (in flashbacks; dies)
- Mary Kent (in flashbacks)
Other Character(s):
- Kryptonians (in flashback)
- Council of Five (in flashback)
- orphanage staff (in flashback)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Lex Luthor (in flashback)
Location(s):
- Earth
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- Smallville (in flashback)
- United States of America
- Krypton (in flashback; destroyed)
- Hall of Wisdom (in flashback; destroyed)
Story Reprinted in:
- Three-Dimension Adventures Superman ([November] 1953)
- Superman 3-D ([February] 1998)
- Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers) (1971) [black and white]
- Best of DC #16 (September 1981)
- The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987 [March 1988])
- The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (1987 [May 1989])
- Superman in the Forties ([December] 2005)
- Superman: A Celebration of 75 Years (2013 [January 2014])
- Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #6 ([September] 2019)
Credits:
| Story | Al Schwartz |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Action Comics #122; next in the third story in this issue)
Other Character(s):
- Professor Grog (first appearance; creates a time formula which sends Superman and Mike Mooney into the past)
- Mike Mooney (first appearance; a typewriter repairman)
- Agamemnon
- the Delphic Oracle
- Denoxes (first appearance; a carpenter fighting in the Trojan Wars)
Location(s):
- Ancient Greece (late Brone Age)
- United States of America
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #6 ([September] 2019)
Credits:
| Story | Don C. Cameron |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #35)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (in between Action Comics #122 and #123)
- Perry White (last in Action Comics #122; next in World's Finest Comics #35)
Villain(s):
- The Eye / El Ojo (first appearance; a former Nazi spy turned criminal; gathers Metropolis criminals to create a pirate fleet of whale submarines)
- Mike the Clip (first appearance)
- Horseface (first appearance)
- the TNT Kid (first appearance)
- Muggsy (first appearance; a safecracker)
- Duke (first appearance)
- Glass Jaw Grogan; (first appearance; a bank robber)
- One-Ear Eddie (first appearance)
- Snapper (first appearance)
- various unidentified criminals from Metropolis
Other Character(s):
- Don Camero (first appearance; a scientist and inventor; blackmailed by The Eye; dies)
- Estrellita (first appearance; his daughter and college classmate of Lois Lane)
- a trio of gauchos (first appearance for all)
- Miss Tweek (first appearance; a secretary)
Location(s):
- Molinia (first appearance)
- El Rancho De Las Sombras
- United States of America
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus #6 ([September] 2019)