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Issue Details

Issue #3
Published Summer 1961
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 84
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes On Sale Date - June 22nd 1961

Cover Details - "The Strange Lives of Superman!"

Characters Superman; green kryptonite
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3

1 page Superman foreword, introduction, preface, afterword "Table of Contents"

Letters typeset

12 page Superman story "The Super-Prisoner of Amazon Island"

Characters Lois Lane; Dr. Edna Blaine; Julia Johns; Sonya Sophia; Betty Dunn (all as the Super Sorority); Superman; green kryptonite; Amazons; Queen Elsha (villain)
Synopsis The Super Sorority are marooned on an uncharted island inhabited by a race of Amazons, Superman arrives but realises that there is an antidote for Kryptonite somewhere nearby. He goes along with Queen Elsha's schemes until he can find the source of his Kryptonite immunity.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #235 (December 1957)

12 page Superman story "Superman's New Face"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; Dr. Norton; green kryptonite
Synopsis Superman's face is scarred during a mission, he must cover up using initially, bandages and then an iron mask until he can remedy the situation.
Genre superhero
Script Edmond Hamilton
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #239 (April 1958)

9 page Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane story "The Ugly Superman!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; Hairy Sam; Injun Ike; Sinbad the Sailor; The Gladiator; The Dutch Devil; The Ugly Superman (later the Gorgeous Superman)
Synopsis Lois Lane shows kindness to the wrestler known as the Ugly Superman but he then becomes besotted with her, after giving Clark Kent a sound beating he undergoes plastic surgery and becomes the Gorgeous Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #8 (April 1959)

Half page Superman text article "Famous Old Superman Stories"

Genre Superhero
Script Julius Schwartz? (as Editor)
Letters typeset

12 page Superman story "The Lady and the Lion"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; Circe (villain); Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Fortress of Solitude; green kryptonite; Kandor
Synopsis Circe gives Superman a potion that causes him to have the head of a lion until he discovers the antidote.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Wayne Boring
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #243 (August 1958)

2 page Superman filler "The Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude"

Characters Fortress of Solitude; Jor-El (statue); Lara (statue); Jonathan Kent (statue); Martha Kent (statue); Superboy (statue); Superman (statue); Batman (statue); Robin [Dick Grayson] (statue); Supergirl (statue); Lois Lane (statue); Jimmy Olsen (statue); Perry White (statue); Kandor
Genre Superhero
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

12 page Superman story "The Superman of the Future!"

Characters Superman; Professor Wright; Lois Lane; Dirk Folgar; green kryptonite; Atlantis
Synopsis Superman poses as the Future Superman, who has the power to predict the future, to smoke out Agent X-3 and prevent an attempt on the life of the President.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #256 (September 1959)

13 page Superman story "The Oldest Man in Metropolis!"

Characters Superman; Prof. Vance; Fortress of Solitude; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Superman robot; The Clock (villain); green kryptonite
Synopsis When Clark Kent drinks Prof. Vance's life-extending vitamin serum, which contains particles of Kryptonite, it ages him to about 70 years old. Since his robots won't respond to his aged voice, Superman must fulfill his duties as the Old Man of the Sea, Santa Claus, and Father Time so that no one realizes that Clark Kent is Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #251 (April 1959)

6 page Superman story "The Two Faces of Superman!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Chet Hartley
Synopsis When Superman sees Lois get out of a date by making herself look ridiculous, he changes his appearance to teach her a lesson.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Notes Superman makes himself look like Alfred E. Neuman.
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #126 (January 1959)

1 page Superman illustration "Best wishes from your friend Superman"

Characters Superman
Synopsis A Superman pin up.
Genre Superhero
Notes Backcover.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]