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Issue: Super DC #2
Publication Date: January 1969
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Issues: #2 of 14 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagThorpe & Porter
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Indicia Publisher: Top Sellers Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1969
Volume: none
Pages: 40
ISBN:
UPC/EAN:
Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
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Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: 8" x 11.25"
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Robin; Batman; Lois Lane; Superboy
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Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Direct Currents
Synopsis: ONE-PAGE ISSUE-OPENING EDITORIAL: Jimmy’s Greatest Scoops - 0.25 page feature on Jimmy Olsen. Star Pic: 2 - 0.15 page snippet on Michael Caine’s background (photo of Michael Caine). Celluloid Struggle - 0.15 page feature on the saloon fight sequence in the film THE MOLLY MAGUIRES. [Cartoon (1 panel), uncredited] Jones The Singer means Tom Jones - 0.15 page snippet on the singer Tom Jones’ Welsh background. Full Speed Ahead: Are You With Us? - One paragraph editorial: “...place a regular order with your newsagent – and do it NOW.”
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The Fate of the Super-Super-Superman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Cary Bates
Penciller(s): Curt Swan
Inker(s): George Klein
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): Mort Weisinger
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superman
Character(s): Supreme Brain (alien); Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Clark Kent; Perry White.
Synopsis: In gratitude for a deed of kindness, an alien being magnifies Superman’s powers beyond his ability to control them.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): Typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Skipper's Mailbag
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Disclose Notes: This 2nd issue of Super DC, like the 1st issue, called for letters from British readers. But to start off the new feature it reprinted letters that were published in DC comics in America.

Letters from Fred Winters; Jim Doody; Fred Draper; James Paraskevas; Marc Eskenazi; Kathy Howton

Also included a 0.2 page feature, "QUIZMASTER: What do you know about Tarzan?". (Photo of Ron Ely as Tarzan)
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The Clock King

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Letterer(s): Typeset
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Genres: superhero
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The Dog From S.C.P.A.!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): George Papp
Inker(s): George Papp
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Superboy
Character(s): Krypto; Superboy; Space Canine Patrol Agents [Tail Terrier; Tusky Husky; Chameleon Collie; Hot Dog; Bull Dog; Paw Pooch; Mammoth Mutt]; Chief Top Dog (villain); Canine Caper Gang (villain); Doggysaur (villain); Space Cat Patrol Agents [Atomic Tom; Power Puss; Crab-Tabby]
Synopsis: While Superboy is on a Legion mission, Krypto patrols space and sees a colossal dog super-hero (Mammoth Mutt) killed by a missile. He learns from the dying dog about the Space Canine Patrol Agents, a group of dog super-heroes - and the Canine Caper Gang, who fired the missile at him. Krypto helps free the SCPA, learning each dog's super-power and helps them defeat Top Dog and his Canine Caper bunch. Krypto is admitted to the SCPA then returns to Earth, awaiting his next adventure with them.
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The Bombshell of the Boulevards

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Leo Dorfman
Penciller(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Inker(s): Kurt Schaffenberger
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Lois Lane
Character(s): Lois Lane; Clark Kent; Superman; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis: Lois Lane investigates a story involving a foreign Count who is courting a movie actress named Lois La Flamme and decides to impersonate her to get to the Count. Superman discovers Lois' ruse and intervenes as Clark Kent, declaring his love to Lois La Flamme. The Count hears Clark propose to La Flamme, who announces that she is actually in love with Superman. The Count challenges Superman to a duel, but his bullet ricochets from Superman into his own chest. Lois reveals her identity to Superman who reveals the faux duel with the count (actually Jimmy Olsen) as a way of getting back at her.
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