Cover: Curt Swan & Stan Kaye

Action Comics #235

Dec 1957 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The Super-Prisoner of Amazon Island”

A tropical tableau of helplessness greets readers of this 1957 DC adventure, as Superman stands bound in Kryptonite-coated chains before a crowd of women on Amazon Island — his mighty powers rendered useless while a dark-haired Amazon woman presides over what the cover text makes clear is an auction for the Man of Steel himself. Cover art by Curt Swan (inks by Stan Kaye) renders the scene with a wonderfully pulpy tension, Superman stoic yet strained as onlookers hold up offerings and the featured story — "The Super-Prisoner of Amazon Island," written by Otto Binder with interior art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye — promises a genuinely fun twist on what it means to be the most powerful man on Earth.

writer Otto Binder · artist Wayne Boring · inker Stan Kaye · cover Curt Swan, Stan Kaye

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Full credits

writer Otto Binder

artist Wayne Boring

inker Stan Kaye

cover pencils Curt Swan

cover inks Stan Kaye

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Lois belongs to a club of women whose lives have been saved by Superman, and while on a cruise, the club is marooned on an island ruled by Amazon warriors. Superman comes to save them but by Amazon custom he must perform various tasks dreamed up by the women or marry the one at whose task he fails.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).