Action Comics

Action Comics (1938-2011) #275

by Jerry Coleman, Curt Swan (Illustrator), Wayne Boring (Illustrator)

Featuring "The Menace of Red and Green Kryptonite! Extra! Mr. & Mrs. Kent Adopt Supergirl!

28 pages, Comic

Published April 1, 1961

About the author

Jerry Coleman (birth/death dates unknown) wrote nearly 100 stories for DC Comics, beginning with Mystery in Space #3. By the mid-1950s he regularly scripted for Weisenger's Superman titles. Among Coleman's best-loved Super-tales: "Superboy's Last Day in Smallville" (Superman #97) and "The girl in Superman's Past" (Showcase #9).

Reviews

[Saffron Moon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Day 42: Action Comics #275 (April 1961):

"The Menace of Red-Green Kryptonite!"

Brainiac exposes Superman to a combination of Red and Green Kryptonite to see what kind of reaction it will create. Supergirl makes a brief cameo.

"Ma and Pa Kent Adopt Supergirl"

Supergirl falls asleep and dreams what if she was the first Kryptonian child to arrive on Earth, and it was her who was discovered and adopted by the Kent’s instead of her cousin, Superman.


*I am reading one Supergirl aka Kara Zor-El (Earth-One) story every day, starting with her introduction in May 1959 in Action Comics #252, until her final appearance in October 1985, in Crisis on Infinite Earths #7.