| Unofficial Superman Index |
SUPERMAN #163
Cover Date: August 1963
Cover Price: $0.12
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein
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Credits:
| Story | Edmond Hamilton |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | George Klein |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Action Comics #302; next in the second story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Action Comics #302; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #43)
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Action Comics #302; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #43/2)
Villain(s):
- Superman Revenge Squad (Zoll and Attal named; also in flashback; team last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #70; next in issue #165)
- Phantom Zone Prisoners
- Jax-Ur (last in flashback in issue #179/2; next in Action Comics #304/2)
- Professor Vakox (last in flashback in issue #179/2; next in Action Comics #304/2)
- Kru-El or Doctor Xadu {last/next in ???)
Other Character(s):
- Wonder-Man (formerly Ajax, a Superman robot; first appearance; changed into a "chemical android;" dies)
- a Kandorian
- citizens of Metropolis
- Superman Robots
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814:
- Unidentified Space Sector(s):
- Vruun (in flashback)
Story Reprinted in:
- Showcase Presents Superman #4 ([September] 2008)
Credits:
| Story | Robert Bernstein |
| Art | Al Plastino |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (also under the identities of John Doe and Cal Ellis; last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #43)
Supporting Character(s):
- Perry White (last in Action Comics #302; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #43/2)
Villain(s):
- The Mad Bomber of Vineville (Ivan Klatch; first appearance)
- Mr. Crump (first appearance; a cruel asylum attendant)
Other Character(s):
- Happy Acres patients (first appearance of all; each believes they are a different historical or fictional figure)
- "General Ulysses S. Grant"
- "Abraham Lincoln"
- "Christopher Columbus"
- "King Arthur"
- "Leonardo da Vinci"
- "Little Lord Fauntleroy"
- "Napoleon Bonaparte"
- citizens of Vineville (first appearance of all)
- the superintendent and staff at Happy Acres (first appearance of all)
Location(s):
- Metropolis:
- Vineville (first appearance)
- Fort Happy Acres State Sanitarium (first appearance; a former Civil War fort, now a mental rehabilitation asylum)
Story Reprinted in:
- Showcase Presents Superman #4 ([September] 2008) [black and white]