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SUPERMAN #81

Cover Date: March-April 1953
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1953-01-12

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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer


Story: "Superman's Secret Workshop" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryEdmond Hamilton
PencilsWayne Boring
InksStan Kaye
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Action Comics #178; next in the second story in this issue; creates "emergency machines" to be used by Metropolis after the Man of Steel is gone)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #178; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (last in Action Comics #177; next in the second story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Lex Luthor (last in World's Finest Comics #62; next in Action Comics #183; takes control of Superman's emergency machines)
Lex Luthor's gang

Other Character(s):

citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Earth
United States of America
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Superman's Workshop (an undisclosed location, inside a mountain)

Comment(s):

This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.


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Second Story: "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea with Superman" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryBill Finger
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (in between the first and the third story in this issue)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (in between the first and the third story in this issue)
Perry White (last in the first story in this issue; next in Action Comics #179)

Villain(s):

Little Dan Wheeler and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Jim Lacey
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

United States of America
the Gold Bowl (a valley surrounded by a ring of mountains)
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Comment(s):

This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.


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Third Story: "The Superwoman from Space" (10 Pages)

Credits:

ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #63)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in the second story in this issue; next in Action Comics #179)

Villain(s):

"Bowtie" Barris and his gang (first appearance for all)

Other Character(s):

Tharka (first appearance; Superwoman of Zor)
John Woolton (first appearance; an inventor)
his assistant (first appearance)
Zorians (first appearance for all)

Location(s):

Earth
United States of America
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Zor (first appearance)

Comment(s):

This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.


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