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Issue Details

Issue #165
Published November 1963
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Beauty and the Super-Beast!"

Characters Superman; Saturn Girl (as Circe)
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

7 page Superman story "Beauty and the Super-Beast! [part 1]"

Characters Saturn Girl (as Circe); Proty II; Lana Lang; Superman Revenge Squad (villains); Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #272 (February 1974)

7 page Superman story "Circe's Super-Slave [part 2]"

Characters Superman; Saturn Girl (as Circe and as Saturn Woman); Lana Lang; Superman Revenge Squad (villains); Proty II; Krypto (flashback); Jimmy Olsen; Perry White
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein

11 page Superman story "The Sweetheart That Superman Forgot!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent; also as Jim White]; Sally Selwyn; Digby Selwyn; Hawkins; Bart Benson; Lori Lemaris; Aquaman (off-panel); Lois Lane
Synopsis Under the influence of a strange type of red kryptonite, Superman loses his powers and his memory. He wanders onto a farm, where he meets and romances Sally Selwyn, assuming the name Jim White. But Bart Benson wants Sally for himself and tries to sabotage "Jim" at every turn, eventually knocking "Jim" into a river. Saved by Aquaman and Lori Lemaris, Superman awakens recovered, but with no memory of his time as Jim White.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Portions of Plastino's artwork during this stage in his career mimic other artists' work. Art identifier Pat Lang confirms work by Plastino, though Lori Lemaris especially looks like modeled after Wayne Boring's version of the character.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #222 (December 1969); in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]