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SUPERMAN FAMILY #192
Cover Date: November-December 1978
Cover Price: $1.00
Publication Date: 1978-08-22
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Ross Andru (signed)
Inks: Dick Giordano (signed)
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Credits:
- E. Nelson Bridwell (script)
- Kurt Schaffenberger (art)
- E. Nelson Bridwell (edits)
Comment(s):
- Table of contents, printed inside the front cover.
Credits:
| Story | Tom DeFalco |
| Art | Joe Staton |
| Lettering | Shelly Leferman |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
- Superboy (in between Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes #245 and #246/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lana Lang (in between issues #191 and #193)
- Pete Ross (last in Adventure Comics #456; next in issue #193)
- Jonathan Kent (in between issues #191 and #194)
- Martha Kent (in between issues #191 and #194)
Villain(s):
- Stasis (first appearance; a supervillain, leading a protection racket)
- his two accomplices (first appearance for both)
Location(s):
- Arctic Circle
- United States of America
- California
- Smallville
Credits:
| Story | Gerry Conway |
| Pencils | Arvell Jones |
| Inks | Romeo Tanghal |
| Lettering | Jerry Serpe |
| Colors | Cory Adams |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
Guest Star(s):
- Doom Patrol (in between issues #191/4 and #193/4)
Supporting Character(s):
- Snapper Carr (in between issues #189/6 and #194/4)
Villain(s):
- Gravitron Man (Rudi Clement; in between issues #191/4 and #193/4; also in flashbacks to earliest chronological appearance, including his family's history and in his discovering anti-gravity at the same time as his cousin)
- Gravity Lord (Martin Tain; in between issues #191/4 and #193/4; also in flashbacks to his family's history and discovering anti-gravity at the same time as his cousin)
- An unnamed energy being (causing Clement and Tain to fight, hopefully causing the destruction of Earth)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of London, England and FLorida
Location(s):
- Santa Augusta, FL
- London, England
- Midvale
Comment(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- The Doom Patrol: The Bronze Age Omnibus (2019)
Credits:
| Story | Bob Toomey |
| Art | Juan Ortiz |
| Lettering | Milt Snapinn |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
- Krypto (gives up his "Kapper" secret identity; last in issue #191/3; next in DC Comics Presents #14)
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- a mob gunman (first appearance?)
- Joe Skinner
Other Character(s):
- Tommy Underhill (last in issue #191/3)
Location(s):
- Chicago, IL
- Los Angeles, CA
Comment(s):
- This story continues from the previous issue.
- This is the final "Krypto" feature in Superman Family.
Credits:
| Story | Tom DeFalco |
| Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Inks | Frank Chiaramonte |
| Lettering | Milt Snapinn |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman Vol. 1 #329; next in Action Comics #489)
Guest Star(s):
- Speedy (last in World's Finest Comics #251/3; next in issue #193/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Guardian (in flashbacks only to his death and cloning)
- Newsboy Legion II (in between issues #191/5 and #193/2)
Villain(s):
Other Character(s):
- Great Frog (including Roy Harper; last/next in ???)
- music festival spectators
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Mal Duncan (in flashback)
- Newsboy Legion (in flashback)
Location(s):
- Lake Leonia (first appearance; site of a yearly rock festival)
- Carmel
- Cadmus Project (in flashback)
Comment(s):
- This story continues into the next issue.
Credits:
| Story | Gerry Conway |
| Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
| Inks | Tex Blaisdell |
| Lettering | Clem Robins |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (uses his Super-Computer to give a simulation where his parents had come to Earth first; last in flashback in Justice League of America #212; next in DC Comics Presents #4)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- characters generated by the Probability Simulator (extrapolated from historical records)
- Jor-El I (Jor-El's father; dies in Krypton's explosion)
- Nimda (Jor-El's mother; dies in Krypton's explosion)
- Nim-El (Jor-El's older brother; dies in Krypton's explosion)
- Lor-Van (Lara's father; dies in Krypton's explosion)
- Lara I (Lara's mother; dies in Krypton's explosion)
- Jor-El II (as infant; next in issue #193/5)
- Lara II (as infant; next in issue #193/5)
- Henry Clark (first actual appearance? Martha Kent's father; adopt Lara; next in issue #193/5)
- Willa Clark (first actual appearance? Martha Kents's mother; adopt Lara; next in issue #193/5)
- Matt Kent (unseen; father of Jonathan, Burt and Kendall; adopts Kal-El; next in issue #193/5)
- The Krull (mentioned; an alien race)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in a computer generated probability simulation)
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Fortress of Solitude
- Smallville (in a computer generated probability simulation of the 1930s)
- Earth
Comment(s):
- This story continues, in part, in the next issue.
- The "Super Sons" from World's Finest Comics #215 (December 1972-January 1973): "Saga of the Super Sons!" are also claimed to have been generated from a computer probability simulator. This was changed to having occurred on "Earth-216" as established in Crisis on Infinite Earths: Absolute Edition (November 2005)
Credits:
| Story | Tom DeFalco |
| Pencils | Win Mortimer |
| Inks | John Celardo |
| Lettering | Ben Oda |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Superman Vol. 1 #333; next in issue #194/3)
Guest Star(s):
- Superman (last in Superman Vol. 1 #333; next in issue #194/3)
Supporting Character(s):
- Human Cannonball (in between issues #191/5 and #193/3)
- Tina Ames (in between issues #189/3 and #193/3)
Villain(s):
- Adam's followers
- The Butcher (first appearance; uses hand-mounted cancer ray)
- Angel Alloyo (first appearance; an ex-hockey player)
- other unnamed terrorists
Other Character(s):
- UN delegates
- Metropoli General Hospital staff
Location(s):
Credits:
| Story | Paul Kupperberg |
| Pencils | Ken Landgraf |
| Inks | Romeo Tanghal |
| Lettering | Shelly Leferman |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Feature Character(s):
- Nightwing (in between issues #191/7 and #193/6)
- Ak-Var (in between issues #191/7 and #193/6; also in flashbacks)
Supporting Character(s):
- Thara Gem-Zee (last in issue #191/7; next in ???; also in flashbacks)
- Sylvia Van-Zee (last in issue #188/5; next in Superman Vol. 1 #414)
- Don-El (in between issues #191/7 and #194/2)
Villain(s):
- The Crime-Lord of Kandor (in between issues #190/5 and #193/6)
- Professor Nukt (first appearance; at the Crime-Lord's direction, subjects Ak-Var to brainwashing; next in issue #193/6)
- the Crime-Lord's henchmen
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- This story continues in the next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman: The Adventures of Nightwing and Flamebird ([October] 2009)