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Issue Details

Issue #149
Published November 1961
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes Inker corrected 2007-11-29. Error (Sheldon Moldoff) spotted by "world's finest guy" on the GCD error list.

Cover Details - "The Death of Superman!"

Characters Superman; Lex Luthor; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Perry White; green kryptonite
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Inker corrected 2007-11-29. Error (Sheldon Moldoff) spotted by "world's finest guy" on the GCD error list.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]

8 page Superman story "Lex Luthor, Hero! [The Death of Superman! part 1]"

Characters Superman; Lex Luthor (villain); Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Lois Lane; Duke Garner (villain); Al Mantz (villain); Sykes (Prison Guard); Bizarro (cameo flashback)
Synopsis Lex Luthor discovers a cure for cancer and with the help of Superman he is paroled from prison.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes 3-part Imaginary Story
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #193 (January-February 1967); in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]; in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #8/1967

Half page Ollie story

Characters Ollie; Archie
Synopsis Ollie overstays his welcome as Archie's houseguest.
Genre Humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff

9 page Superman story "Luthor's Super-Bodyguard! [The Death of Superman! part 2]"

Characters Superman (death); Lex Luthor (villain); Supergirl (guest star); green kryptonite; Lois Lane; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Duke Garner (villain); Al Mantz (villain)
Synopsis Lex Luthor reveals that he was only pretending to be good and kills Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes Imaginary story.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #193 (January-February 1967); in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]; in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #8/1967

1 page text article "The Great Superman Boo-Boo Contest"

Synopsis Lists the winners of 'The Great Superman Boo-Boo Contest' from Superman #145. Includes some panels and examples of the errors in that story. Winners got original Superman drawings. First place found 456 errors.
Letters Typeset

1 page letters page "Metropolis Mailbag"

8 page Superman story "The Death of Superman! [part 3]"

Characters Superman; Justice League of America [Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Green Arrow [Oliver Queen]; Wonder Woman; Flash [Barry Allen]] (cameo, first appearance in SUPERMAN); Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Cosmic Boy; Saturn Girl] (cameo); Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Lex Luthor (villain); Lucy Lane; Robin (cameo); Lori Lemaris (cameo); Krypto (cameo); Supergirl (guest star); Superman robots; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; Van-Zee (cameo); Sylvia (cameo); Phantom Zone; Lana Lang (cameo)
Synopsis Superman is buried and Supergirl brings Lex Luthor to justice.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Sheldon Moldoff
Notes 3-part Imaginary story.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #193 (January-February 1967); in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]; in Supermann (Se-Bladene, 1966 series) #8/1967