Synopsis
Lex Luthor uses every method available to him to learn the connection between Clark Kent and Superman, including drugging Ma and Pa Kent and torturing Lana Lang. The computer calculates that Clark Kent is Superman, which Lex feels is illogical, and so he has the computer data deleted and Amanda McCoy is fired.
Notes
This is a custom comic commissioned by English real estate businessman Godfrey Bradman to celebrate his son Daniel's bar mitzvah on his 13th birthday, and was given out to his friends to mark the occasion. The comic features Godfrey's son Daniel and Andrew Hunt (Daniel's half-brother), along with the rest of the family.
Per the author (David Levin), it is named after the classic science-fiction movie "This Island Earth."
Paul Levitz in his book "75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking" says the print run was 200 copies, most likely split into 100 for the family and 100 for DC.
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Credits
- Script
- David Levin, John Byrne
- Pencils
- Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, John Byrne, Carmine Infantino, José Luis García-López
- Inks
- Curt Swan, Stan Kaye, Angelo Torres, Terry Austin, Murphy Anderson, José Luis García-López, Dick Giordano
- Colours
- Barry Goldberg, Tom Ziuko
- Letters
- Ira Schnapp, Jon D'Agostino, John Costanza
- Editor
- Joey Cavalieri
- Background inks
- Keith Williams
- Daniel bradman and andrew hunt faces
- Angelo Torres
- Executive editor
- Joe Orlando
- Original editor
- Andy Helfer
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