687 – Rebello

In Superboy #72 (Feb 1959), Clark creates an extremely life-like robot, one that is nearly indistinguishable from the real Superboy, complete with its own wants and desires. Unfortunately it turns out to have one flaw: the robot is left-handed. So naturally rather than fix that bug, Superboy decides to destroy the robot for fear of […]

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686 – Sgt. Rock

In Our Army At War #81 (Feb 1959), Easy Company and its leader Sgt. Rock are introduced. Called “The Rock of East Company” in the above panel, which must clearly be a mistake, he is a steelworker from Pittsburgh and was created by Robert Kanigher and Joe Kubert.

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685 – Superwoman as Revenge

Lois Lane’s solo comic is providing many more instances of Superman being petty and using his abilities frivolously. In Lois Lane #8 (Feb 1959), for her birthday – but really just to “teach her a lesson” – Superman decides to give Lois Lane his super-powers. Clark then proceeds to put her into a series of […]

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684 – Lucy Lane

In Superman’s Pal, Jimmy Olsen #36 (February 1959), the writers thought to introduce an occasional love interest for Jimmy in Lois Lane’s younger sister, Lucy Lane. Lucy is a blonde stewardess that Jimmy falls for immediately and does his geeky best to get a date with her. Finally succeeding, he amazingly decides to “pop the […]

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683 – Pied Piper and Grodd

In Flash #106 (Feb 1959), the Flash creative team of John Broome and Carmine Infantino creates a couple new super-villains for the Scarlet Speedster. The first is the more believable: The Pied Piper is a criminal with a “Super-Sonic Flute”. With it, he is the Master of Sound: able to manipulate vibrations in the air […]

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681 – Not Quite Negative Man

In House of Mystery #84 (Jan 1959), a one-off story called “Negative Man” drawn by Jack Kirby has a scientist accidentally get a near-fatal dose of radio energy which causes a being made of pure energy to come out of his body. The being is eventually defeated by coming into contact with first water, then […]

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680 – Superboy Meets Oliver Queen

About a half a year after Superboy met Robin, Superboy gets a chance to meet Oliver Queen, the future Green Arrow, in Adventure Comics #258 (January 1959). Superboy tries to invent a machine to look back into the past, but via an “atmospheric disturbance” it lets him see into the future, 1959 to be precise. […]

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679 – Titano

Another Superman villain is introduced in Superman #127 (Dec 1958): Titano! Yes, we clearly needed a “super-ape”. Chimp goes into a rocket / spaceship, is exposed to two meteors (uranium and kryptonite) and comes back grown to enormous size and sporting kryptonite vision. A “certain spin” sends Titano across the time barrier into the past […]

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678 – Mirror Master!

DC decided that the new Silver Age Flash was a success in his Showcase try-outs and gives him his own magazine in Flash #105 (December 1958). This happens to be exactly 10 years after the Golden Age Flash magazine was cancelled, and DC decided to keep the series numbering. This issue marks the debut of […]

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677 – Mr Freeze Zero

By the end of 1958, DC starts to really focus on giving their superheroes more interesting villains to fight. Batman #121 (Dec 1958) introduces Mr. Freeze, though he is called Mr. Zero in this first story, “The Ice Crimes of Mr. Zero”. He is an unnamed criminal scientist who had an unfortunate accident that forced […]

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