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SUPERMAN #165

Cover Date: November 1963
Cover Price: $0.12

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: George Klein


Story: "Part I: Beauty and the Super-Beast!" (14 Pages)
Part II: "Circe's Super-Slave"

Credits:

StoryRobert Bernstein
PencilsCurt Swan
InksGeorge Klein
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Action Comics #305; next in the second story in this issue)

Guest Star(s):

Krypto (last in Adventure Comics #313; next in Action Comics #309)
Saturn Woman (also posing as Circe; last/next in ???)
Proty II (last/next in ???)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Action Comics #305; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #45/2)
Lana Lang (in between Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #44/3 and #45)
Lois Lane (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #44/3; next in the second story in this issue)
Perry White (last in Action Comics #305; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #45)

Villain(s):

Superman Revenge Squad (last in issue #163; next in Action Comics #313)
a gang of jewelry store robbers (first appearance of all)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Cape Canaveral, FL
Crete
Metropolis
Daily Planet
Unspecified Space Sector
Wexr II

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #272/6 (February 1974)
Showcase Presents Superman #4 ([September] 2008)


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Second Story: "The Sweetheart Superman Forgot!" (8 Pages)

Credits:

StoryJerry Siegel
ArtAl Plastino
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (exposed to red kryptonite; loses powers and memories and adopts the name "Jim White;" last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #45)

Supporting Character(s):

Lois Lane (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #45)
Lori Lemaris (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #44; next in Action Comics #307/2)

Villain(s):

Bart Benson (first appearance; foreman of Selwyn Lumber)

Guest Appearance(s):

Aquaman (behind the scenes; in between Aquaman Vol. 1 #11 and #12)

Other Character(s):

Digby Selwyn (first appearance; wealthy owner of farmland, timber lands and oil fields; next in issue #169/2)
Sally Selwyn (first appearance; hus daughter; falls in love with "Jim White;" next in issue #169/2)
various attendees at a barn dance and rodeo (first appearance of all; Maisie named)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet
The Selwyn Estate

Story Reprinted in:

Superman Vol. 1 #222/2 (December 1969)
Superman in the Sixties ([September] 1999)
Showcase Presents Superman #4 ([September] 2008) [black and white]


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