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Superman (1939) - #242
"The Ultimate Battle!"
DC Comics


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E. Nelson Bridwell
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Neal Adams
  

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Cover Date: September 1971
Cover Price: US $ 0.25

Issue Tagline: The Duel That Destroyed the Earth!

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 48 pages

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Letters Column: Metropolis Mailbag

Synopsis:
None entered.

Reprints/Collects:
Strange Adventures (1950) #54
Superman (1939) #96

Reprinted/Collected in:
The Best of DC (1979) #32
DC Comics Classics Library (2009) HC vol. 01

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Superman versus Quarrmer

Writer(s):
Dennis 'Denny' O'Neil

Penciller(s):
Curt Douglas Swan

Inker(s):
Murphy Anderson

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An image for I-Ching exists I-Ching
An image for James 'Jimmy' Olsen (DC)(Earth-1) exists James 'Jimmy' Olsen (DC)(Earth-1)
Quarrmer (Sand-Superman)
An image for Superman (DC)(Earth-1 - Pre Crisis) exists Superman (DC)(Earth-1 - Pre Crisis)
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Writer(s):
Bill Finger

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Wayne Boring

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Originally published in Superman # 96, March 1955

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Writer(s):
Otto Oscar Binder - 'Eando Binder'

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Carmine Infantino

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Originally published in Strange Adventures #54, March 1955

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