The Last Days Of Ma And Pa Kent! An Untold Story of Superman!
On a trip to visit Jonathan and Martha Kent's graves in Smallville, Superman remembers their last days, as both perished from a disease picked up from a buried treasure, and how their deaths almost caused him to abandon his superheroic career from guilt.
Written by Leo Dorfman. Art and inks by Al Plastino.
Countdown On Excellence A 1-page B/W public service strip that appears on the front inside cover. In cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly.
Superman Goes To War! Clark Kent, Perry White, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen are hired to act as extras in Invasion, a World War II epic movie being filmed in the Pacific. Unknown to the reporters and the movie-makers, a contingent of aliens from the planet Zhor have become marooned on Earth when their spacecraft is disabled by a meteor. When they see the "invading" fleet of ships from the movie, they assume they are being attacked, take over Japanese weaponry still left on the island, and try to repel the "invaders". Clark Kent, to cover for a supposed "injury" done him by a shell and to be able to operate with super-powers in public, summons Supergirl by ventriloquism. She fakes giving Clark temporary super-powers from a blood transfusion. The now openly-powerful Clark Kent defeats the Zhorians. When he hears their story, Superman repairs their ship and helps them take off again. Later, Clark pretends to have gained amnesia about recent events when the transfusion "wears off," and also pretends not to believe Jimmy and Lois's stories of his derring-do.
Written by Edmond Hamilton. Artwork by Curt Swan. Inks by George Klein.
