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SUPERMAN #83
Cover Date: July-August 1953
Cover Price: $.10
Publication Date: 1953-05-04
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Cover Credits:
Art: Win Mortimer
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Credits:
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Stan Kaye |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Action Comics #182; next in the second story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #182; next in the second story in this issue)
- Perry White (last in Action Comics #181; next in the second story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- The Brain (first appearance; no relation to the later Doom Patrol villain the Brain)
- Spider (first appearance; a gang member posing as Superman)
- other members of the Brain's gang (first appearance for all)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Earth
- North Africa
- The Sahara
- Egypt
- The Sphinx (destroyed, presumably rebuilt by Superman)
- Greece
- The Parthenon (destroyed, presumably rebuilt by Superman)
- Italy
- The Leaning Tower of Pisa (destroyed, rebuilt by Superman)
- United States of America
- North Africa
Comment(s):
- This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.
Credits:
| Story | Edmond Hamilton |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (in between the first and the third story in this issue; wins Bravest Woman contest)
- Perry White (in between the first and the third story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- Grissom (first appearance; a Press Agent for Lavish Studios)
Other Character(s):
- Finalists for the Daily Planet's Bravest Woman contest)
- Billie Brown (first appearance; a stunt pilot)
- Greta Gage (first appearance; a stuntwoman for Lavish Studios)
- Hilda Gaye (first appearance; a high diver)
- Lynne Paris (first appearance; a circus aerialist)
- an airplane mechanic (first appearance)
- Hilda Gaye's coach (first appearance
- Lynene Paris' husband (first appearance
Location(s):
- United States of America
Comment(s):
- This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.
Credits:
| Story | Al Schwartz |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #65)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #65)
- Perry White (last in the second story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #65)
Other Character(s):
- Warden Ellis Graham (first appearance)
- prison guards
- prison convicts
Location(s):
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- Daily Planet
- State Penitentiary
- Metropolis
Comment(s):
- This story features the Golden Age versions of characters.