Comic Title: DC Super Stars #9
Publisher: DC (National Periodical Publications, Inc.)
Address: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY
Cover Date: November 1976
On Sale Date: August 26, 1976 Newsstand Date August 26, 1976
Source: Direct Currents, Amazing World of DC Comics #12

Newsstand Date August 26, 1976
Source: Comic Reader, #134

Copyright Date August 26, 1976
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1976


Newsstand Date August 23, 1976
Source: Daily Planet, Vol. 76 #16
Listed as on sale the week of August 23rd

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.50
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack C. Harris

See Also: The Guide to DC Giants

Title: "The Super-Gun"
Pages: 9

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted From:
Superman #144 (1961)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #274; next appearance in Superman #144)

Supporting Character(s)

• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Action Comics #274; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #52)

Villain(s)

• Lex Luthor (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #23; next appearance in World's Finest Comics #117)
• Bert Talbot and his gang (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Lex Luthor gives his cellmate, Bert Talbot who is about to be released, the plans for a Weapon X, a weapon that can defeat Superman. Talbot builds the weapon and then disguises himself as Amos Dexter, owner of Ace Newsreels. Talbot offers Superman a donation to charity if he will perform a super stunt for Talbot’s camera. Using the super-force generated by Superman’s deed, Talbot has a power source for the weapon.

Talbot then begins committing robberies around town using the weapon. It even affects Superman since it is powered by his own super-force. Luthor is upset because Talbot has not helped him break jail, and Superman is puzzled as to the source of the weapon’s power.

After several encounters with the weapon, Superman is knocked backwards in time by the weapon’s force. In the past he observes how his own energy was drained to power the weapon. Superman returns to the present and has Jimmy Olsen use Kryptonite to weaken him while the weapon is absorbing his energy. When the crooks try to use the weapon again it malfunctions allowing Superman to capture them.