DC Comics Superman Title - "Secret of the Phantom Quarterback" Volume - 1 Issue - # 264 Date - June 1973 Sy nopsis Former Metropolis Meteors star quarterback Steve Lombard is walking down the street when he sees a baby falling from a building. He saves the infant, but awakens an old knee injury that he gained during his pro football years. A scientific "miracle worker" named Frederic Fowe witnesses the spectacle and offers to treat Steve's injuries. He uses a special solar healing ray which quickly restores Lombard to proper health. However, the ray also demonstrates an unusual side-effect, as it creates a solar-powered energy being based upon Steve's likeness. The energy being adorns itself in one of Steve's old football jerseys and becomes the Phantom Quarterback. The Phantom Quarterback bounds across Metropolis committing random acts. Superman arrives on the scene, and determines that the entity is more a nuisance than an aid, and so he launches the creature into outer space where it impacts with a sunspot on Earth's sun. Later, Morgan Edge of WGBS hires Steve Lombard to work for him as a sportscaster. Clark Kent and Lois Lane immediately take a disliking to Steve who irritates them with his aloof attitude and quirky behavior. IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE PICTURES, PLEASE ASK I AM NOT A COMIC BOOK GRADER, I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THESE OLD COMICS WOULD GRADE. ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE WILL COMBINE SHIPPING IF MORE THAN ONE ARE BOUGHT
Specifics
- Artist/Writer: Cary Bates
- Certification Number: N/A
- Character: Frederic Fowe, Lois Lane, Metropolis Meteors, Morgan Edge, Phantom Quarterback, Steve Lombard, Superman
- Convention/Event: n/a
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
- Cover Artist: Nick Cardy
- Custom Bundle: No
- Era: Bronze Age (1970-83)
- Features: 1st Edition, Boarded, Dust Jacket
- Format: Single Issue
- Genre: Science Fiction, Superheroes
- Inscribed: No
- Intended Audience: Children & Young Adults
- Issue Number: 264
- Language: English
- Personalized: No
- Publication Year: 1973
- Publisher: DC Comics
- Series Title: Superman
- Signed: No
- Signed By: n/a
- Story Title: Secret of the Phantom Quarterback
- Style: Color
- Superhero Team: Justice League of America
- Tradition: US Comics
- Type: Comic Book
- Unit of Sale: Single Unit
- Universe: DC Universe
- Vintage: Yes