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Cover: José Luis García-López & Dick Giordano
The Great Superman Comic Book Collection #[nn]
“The Origin of Superman!”
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Full credits
writer Otto Binder
artist, inker Al Plastino
cover pencils José Luis García-López
cover inks Dick Giordano
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Superman spies a crashing rocket and discovers his cousin Supergirl. She tells him how Argo City survived the destruction of Krypton and how her father sent her to Earth when the inhabitants of Argo City were threatened by Kryptonite poisoning. Superman sets her up in Midvale Orphanage so she can adjust to life on Earth.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).