Cover Credits: Jerry Ordway (with inset by Wayne Boring and Ordway) ( pencils/inks )
Title: The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Superman ..........23 pg.

Credits: Roy Thomas ( writer/editor );Wayne Boring( pencils ), Jerry Ordway ( inks ); David C. Weiss( letters ); Gene D'Angelo ( colors )

Feature Characters: Superman ( Kal-L of Krypton-Two and Earth-Two, also as Clark Kent, last New Adventures of Superboy #14/2, next Action Comics #3 ), Lois Lane ( of Earth-Two, later Lois Lane Kent, first chronological appearance, next Action Comics #3 )

Guest Stars:

Villains: Bea Carroll ( a murderess, first and only appearance ), Butch and other thugs ( first and only appearance )

Other Characters: Jor-L and Lara ( of Krypton-Two, first appearance?, both die ), John and Mary Kent ( of Earth-Two, first appearance?, both die ), George Taylor ( of Earth-Two, Editor of the Daily Star, appears next ... ), Evelyn Curry and Sims ( both framed for the death of Jack Kennedy, a union organizer, first and only appearance for both )

Chronological Commments: John and Mary Kent's birth dates are given as 1868 and 1865. Their date of death is 1938.

Comments: This story is "narrated" by the Encyclopedia Galactica, 30th Century Editon.
This is the first issue of the third series to be called Secret Origins.
This issue also contains a page of vinettes drawn by the 1940's Shuster Art Studio, including work by Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy, John Sielka, Ed Dobrotka and Leo Nowak.

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