Superman #127

Feb 1959 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“When There Was No Clark Kent!”

From 1959 comes this wonderfully strange chapter in Superman's long history, featuring the cover-billed Titano — a massive, grinning green-eyed gorilla clutching a pair of lead-framed glasses — described right on the cover as "More Fantastic Than King Kong!" Lois Lane stands nearby, coaxing the giant ape to put on the glasses, while a visibly distressed Superman lies pinned below, the cover's own caption warning that Titano's Kryptonite vision could prove fatal. Cover pencils by Curt Swan with inks by Stan Kaye give the scene a lively, pulpy energy, and the issue also promises a bonus "Untold Tale of Superman" — with the interior story "When There Was No Clark Kent!" written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye.

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

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Cast · 5 characters

Clark Kent / Kal-El Jimmy Olsen Lois Lane Perry White Superman

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writer Otto Binder

artist Wayne Boring

inker Stan Kaye

cover pencils Curt Swan

cover inks Stan Kaye

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Lois befriends the intelligent chimp Toto just before he is sent into orbit inside a satellite. While in orbit, the satellite passes by a collision of a uranium metorite with a kryptonite one, which causes the chimp to grow to enormous size and shoot kryptonite beams from his eyes. Because of this change, Lois re-names him Titano. Though not meaning any harm, Titano poses a threat to humanity and Superman, so the army traps the giant chimp, planning to execute him. But Lois devises a way to block Titano's kryptonite vision so Superman can send him into the past where he cannot harm anyone.

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