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    Question Looking for issue#: space being absorbs kryptonite; dies saving Superman

    Sometime in the silver age I remember reading a comic and I'm looking for the issue. If I recall correctly, Superman (or Superboy) was alone in space and along comes a 'cute' space alien. They have some fun, but Superman encounters a kryptonite chunk and collapses. As he is about to expire, the being absorbs the poisonous effects, and dies saving our hero. I've done a lot of searching, with no results. Does anyone recall the issue name and number?

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    Pretty sure that was World's Finest #112 from the Silver Age.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuwagaton View Post
    Pretty sure that was World's Finest #112 from the Silver Age.
    "The Menace of Superman's Pet"
    Yes! That's it. The title and cover are misleading.

    Thanks!

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    No problem. It's funny that back then the cover would range from something completely unrelated to essentially a recolor of a page within. But despite being indifferent to Batman and Robin from those stories, I found some of them to be the most off the wall fun.

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    I read this story in WORLD'S FINEST COMICS 170 (October-November 1967)--which was 80 Page Giant G-40. But the tale wasn't pictured on the cover. The cover, as with most Giants at the time, had four thumbnails of the original covers, which were by Swan and Sprang. All six stories in that collection were winners, so it must've been hard to decide which four adventures out of the six to spotlight on the cover.

    Back in the 1950s, sometimes they would flip the splash page and the cover--not in this case with 112 though. But as Curt Swan was normally the cover artist and Dick Sprang the interior artist, sometimes Swan's cover would become the splash and Sprang's splash the cover.

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    When I read these as a boy, I would buy them at a local corner store that sold them with the cover ripped off. Something like 3 for ten cents or thereabouts.

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