Superman #224
Superman #224
Cover Credits
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: Jack Abel

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Title: "Beware the Super-Genius Baby"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Robert Kanigher
Penciller: Curt Swan
Inker: George Roussos

Feature Character(s)

Supporting Character(s)

Villain(s)

  • Professor Ulvo and Nether (imaginary appearance)

Other Character(s)

  • Super-Genius (imaginary appearance)
  • Several airport security guards (imaginary appearance)
  • Several unnamed parents (imaginary appearance)

Comments:
This story is an imaginary story. The events depicted are not part of regular continuity.

Synopsis:
Superman and Lois Lane get married after the Man of Steel finds a formula that makes Lois invulnerable. After a year of marriage Lois become pregnant. A criminal scientist, Professor Ulvo, focuses an experimental device on Lois. Exposure to the device causes the baby to be born with super-intelligence, vastly surpassing Superman's own mind.

At a week old, the baby is talking and doing complex equations. The baby is also disgusted by his parents' lack of intelligence. Eventually he flies away to meet Professor Ulvo. The scientist intends to use to baby for crime, but Super-Genius takes over the gang instead.

Superman confronts his son at an airport where the baby criminal is attempting to extort money for every plane that lands. The Man of Steel tries to use Kryptonite to stop his son, but the baby has already created an anti-Kryptonite formula. Suddenly, the baby falls asleep. Superman reveals that he used a delayed-action cerebral neutralizer on his son before he left to join the gang. When Superman gets the baby back home, the baby is normal and no longer possesses super-intelligence.


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