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ISSUE SUMMARY

Publisher: Atlas Publishing
Title: Superman Annual
Page Count: 160
Genre: Humor, Superhero
Era: Silver
Cover Price: 6'- [0-6-0 GBP]
Cover Date: January 1961
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Country: United Kingdom
Johnny Kirk's father blasts him into space because he thinks Earth is soon to be destroyed by a meteor. After Superboy deflects the meteor, he asks him to find his son. But Superboy is all grown up as Superman before Johnny Kirk returns to Earth, now with super powers. But Superman's own powers are disappearing due to contact with a space poison that was on Johnny's space ship.; When Superman is shocked to find a town that prohibits his entrance, he investigates under the identity of Kent Clark and discovers that Mayor Bruce Cyrus blames Superman for his not being adopted as a child.; Lois meets heiress Dolores Drake who seems to be an exact double of her. Superman mistakes Dolores for Lois, and as Lois watches, he seems to prefer Dolores over the real Lois.; Superman makes himself, Perry, Jimmy, and Robin look old in order to teach Lois a lesson, but then someone with super-powers shows up and claims to be Superman Junior.; Superman hopes that Lois' constant snooping to find his identity will provide evidence to convince "Con" Conners that he is wrong in believing that Clark Kent is Superman. However, Lois has decided that she will stop snooping to find Superman's identity.; When Superman uses super-speed to break up a hurricane, Jimmy's helicopter is caught up in the airflow and breaks the time barrier to end up in the year 5921. In that year he finds he is a despised criminal who in the past killed Superman with kryptonite. He is captured by the future police and sent back to the 20th Century to stand trial.; After falling off a ledge, Lois dreams she and Clark gain super-powers and become Power Girl and Power-Man.; In order to protect his secret identity after Jimmy sees Clark flying to intercept a meteor, Superman concocts a scheme involving ancient Indian relics that supposedly allow the wearer to fly. Jimmy puts on the wings and Superman has to invent ways of keeping Jimmy aloft without exposing himself.; Lois uses Cleopatra's perfume and becomes irresistible.; In order to drum up sales at the Daily Planet, Jimmy eats some kryptonite-flavored fruit from his souvenir room. The fruit turns his skin a glowing green and he contrives a hoax to pretend he is a man from Mars.; The police chief orders Green Arrow to leave town. GA and Speedy go to the town of Mercer where they fight a gang of thieves who draw the archers back to the city. They find it all was a hoax leading up to "Green Arrow Week."; Lois strikes her head while swimming and in a coma dreams she is married to Superman. Superman has to find a way to make Lois's dream unpleasant so that she will return to reality.; Jimmy is handcuffed to "Angles" Anson in a magic trick that goes awry. Jimmy calls Superman with his signal watch, but dummies of Superman show up instead.; Lois takes a bribe and is forced into crime by Baldy Pate.; Synopsis:Oliver Queen is marooned on Starfish Island, where he hones his skills as an archer and develops trick arrows. When an expedition sets out to explore the island years later, he fools them with his fake-uranium arrow.; Green Arrow and Speedy meet the Green Error, a clown who spoofs Green Arrow at the circus. Green Error's tools help them stop the robbers who stole the day's receipts.; Mr. Vention is buying up "useless" inventions that he then uses for his robberies.; Roy thinks that Green Arrow is training a new replacement and is going to fire Speedy.; Green Arrow and Speedy land in a remote valley that is still occupied by Sioux Indian warriors.; Pete thinks a tooth on a dentist's sign is from a giant.