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Issue Details

Issue #131
Published August 1959
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "Superman's Future Wife!"

Characters Superman; Super-Twins; Superman's future wife
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Lois Lane Annual (DC, 1962 series) #1 (Summer 1962); in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

8 page Superman story "The Menace of Mr. Mxyzptlk!"

Characters Superman; Mr. Mxyzptlk; Lois Lane
Synopsis Mr. Mxyzptlk returns and this time he has an alarm in his hat to warn him when he is about to say his name backwards.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes 1st "modern" spelling of Mr. Mxyzptlk's name.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #206 (May 1968); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #8/1966

7 page Superman story "Superman's Future Wife"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Super-Twins
Synopsis In an enchanted cottage, Lois has visions of the future and learns that Superman will marry and father twins...but doesn't learn WHO Superman will marry!
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Kurt Schaffenberger
Inks Kurt Schaffenberger
Reprinted in Lois Lane Annual (DC, 1962 series) #1 (Summer 1962); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #8/1966

7 page Superman; An Untold Story of Superman story "The Unknown Super-Deeds"

Characters Superboy; Martha Kent; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis Bored one summer afternoon, Superboy performs three seemingly insignificant super-feats, never knowing he performed them for three people who one day will be very important to him.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Early chronological appearances of Perry White, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen. Reprint info by Bob Bailey via Per Sandell, 2005-01-13.
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #146 (December 1964); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #8/1966