Superman#144
Cover: Curt Swan & Stan Kaye
Superman #144
“The Super-Weapon!”
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Cast · 11 characters
Full credits
writer Jerry Siegel
artist Curt Swan
inker Sheldon Moldoff
cover pencils Curt Swan
cover inks Stan Kaye
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Lex Luthor designs Weapon-X, a device that can drain Superman's powers and use them to power a weapon powerful enough to destroy Superman. Bert Talbot is supposed to use the weapon to help spring Luthor from prison but instead decides to try to use the weapon to destroy Superman himself.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).