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Issue Details

Issue #124
Published September 1958
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 8
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Black Knight's Super-Sword"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

8 page Superman story "The Super-Sword"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; "Bull" Mathews
Synopsis After Superman releases the Black Knight from a block of ice after nearly 1,000 years, the villain goes on a crime spree. When the knight wounds Superman with his magical sword, criminal "Bull" Mathews offers to buy it, but finds it was all a set-up to trap him.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman?
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #7 (Summer 1963); in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

7 page Superman story "Mrs. Superman"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; kryptonite; Chief Mawmba
Synopsis When Clark and Lois are trapped on a remote island, Clark reveals his double identity to Lois and proposes marriage. But when he discovers that he can leave the island, Clark must convince Lois he faked the super-feats he performed on the island in order to get out of the engagement.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in 80 Page Giant (DC, 1964 series) #14 (September 1965); in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

8 page Superman story "The Steeplejack of Steel"

Characters Superman; Bart Benson
Synopsis Superman takes a construction job undercover as Kirk Brent to expose a shady contractor.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder?
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1