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Title: Web user trying to track down story Post by: Great Rao on February 14, 2007, 05:49:51 PM We recently received the following request:
Quote I have a question that emerges from my memory of an old Superman comic that I read as a child in the 1970s. It involves Superman doing battle with a mysterious airplane that could shape-shift and become any other object--like a telephone booth, or a car, etc. The airplane, if memory serves, had an intelligence and could communicate. At any rate, it captured my imagination as a child, and yet I cannot remember in which Superman title the story appeared. Does it ring any bells? Title: Re: Web user trying to track down story Post by: wimted on February 15, 2007, 03:14:31 AM Yes, this does ring some bells. As a kid I was fascinated by this shape-shifting story. Although it was published in in my country (The Netherlands) in Dutch Superman #28 (1973), it is this story:
The Dagger That Ripped the Sky published in Superman # 256 (sept 1972) See this link on comics.org for a cover etc: www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=25417 (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=25417) Please let me know if this is indeed the story you're looking for Wimted www.superman-comics.nl (http://www.superman-comics.nl) Title: Re: Web user trying to track down story Post by: davidelliott on February 15, 2007, 12:00:35 PM The Dagger That Ripped the Sky published in Superman # 256 (sept 1972) See this link on comics.org for a cover etc: www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=25417 (http://www.comics.org/details.lasso?id=25417) Interesting that one of the characters involved is Mickey Moran (aka the UK's Marvelman)... I would love to read that story! Title: Re: Web user trying to track down story Post by: Permanus on February 15, 2007, 01:26:52 PM Interesting that one of the characters involved is Mickey Moran (aka the UK's Marvelman)... I would love to read that story! Kimota! Title: Re: Web user trying to track down story Post by: Super Monkey on February 15, 2007, 07:04:14 PM Wimted gets a fabulous No-Prize!
Superman No. 256 September 1972 Cover: Mickey Moran filming Clark Kent being exposed as Superman by Zeena //Nick Cardy Story: “The Dagger That Ripped the Sky” (17 pages) Editor: Julius Schwartz Writer: Cary Bates Penciller: Curt Swan Inker: Murphy Anderson Feature Character: Superman (last appearance in WORLD’S FINEST COMICS #213) Supporting Character: Morgan Edge (last appearance in ACTION COMICS #415; next appears in SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #154) Intro: People of Bent Fork, a general (only appearance for all) Villain: Dr. John Novil (first appearance; dies in this story) Synopsis: Superman must deal with the menace of Dr. John Novil, a scientist who has transferred his mind into the body of a fighter jet of his own design which can morph into any metallic shape he desires. http://darkmark6.tripod.com/supermanind5.htm |