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The Greatest 1950s Stories Ever Told #[nn]
"The Super Bat-Man!" is a thrilling 1991 DC anthology tale from the legendary duo of Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, with Kirby handling art, inks, and color, and Ben Oda on letters. Four survivors of a plane crash, each gifted with extraordinary abilities, take on a mysterious ancient box whose chambers unleash bizarre, mind-bending challenges—only to discover that true immortality was never in the ring they claimed. The cover, a striking piece by Joe Kubert, captures the story’s bold, otherworldly tone.
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Four men escape a plane crash unharmed, decide they are living on borrowed time and vow to use it challenging the unknown. In their first case, they’re asked to open the four chambers of an ancient box. The chambers release: a stone giant that Prof. destroys by pure thought, a sun that freezes by consuming nearby heat that Red traps in a vacuum chamber, and a device that snarls things in plastic ribbons but is controlled by a dial on its container. Morelian opens the fourth and removes a ring, claiming the box says it contains immortality. He is wrong: immortality was in the box, not the ring.
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