SUPERMAN (1939-86; 2006-11) #356
NM+: 9.6
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glossy! ow/white pages
Swan artCover pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Dick Giordano. Battle of the Super-Hyper Powers!, script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; Vartox returns to Earth from his new adopted planet Tynola to tell Lana goodby, and also to secretly ask Superman for help. The Exile From Krypton, script by Paul S. Newman, pencils by Jose Delbo, inks by Kim DeMulder; Lok-Nor meets an alien spaceship and is tricked into making his people slaves.
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.
Swan artCover pencils by Rich Buckler, inks by Dick Giordano. Battle of the Super-Hyper Powers!, script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; Vartox returns to Earth from his new adopted planet Tynola to tell Lana goodby, and also to secretly ask Superman for help. The Exile From Krypton, script by Paul S. Newman, pencils by Jose Delbo, inks by Kim DeMulder; Lok-Nor meets an alien spaceship and is tricked into making his people slaves.
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.