Issue Details

Issue	#243
Published	August 1958
Cover Price	0.10
Pages	36
Editing	Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Lady and the Lion"

Characters	Superman; Lois Lane
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Curt Swan
Inks	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

12 page Superman story "The Lady and the Lion"

Characters	Superman; Lois Lane; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; Circe; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; kryptonite
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	Stan Kaye
Reprinted	in Superman Annual (1960 series) #3 (Summer 1961); in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Puzzle of the Perilous Planetoid"

Genre	science fiction
Script	Otto Binder
Pencils	Jim Mooney
Inks	Jim Mooney
Reprinted	in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #156 (March 1966)

6 page Congo Bill story "The Five From The Future"

Genre	jungle
Pencils	Howard Sherman
Inks	Howard Sherman