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Supergirl; COMIC BOOK IMPACT rating of 5 (CBI)
Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by George Klein. "Clark Kent in the Big House!", script by Otto Binder, art by Al Plastino; Clark Kent agrees to go undercover in prison to discover the secret location of an inmate's stolen money. One-page Hamid the Hypnotist story by Henry Boltinoff. "The Kryptonian Killer!", script by Leo Dorfman, art by Jim Mooney; On the planet Feminax, the Sisterhood of Evil hypnotizes Supergirl and forces her to commit evil deeds, culminating in the poisoning of Superman, but fortunately Comet is able to intervene and reverse the effects with the help of Circe.


Artist Information

Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.