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Issue Details

Issue #153
Published May 1962
Cover Price 0.12
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Super-Showdown!"

Characters Superman; Phantom Zone villains
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]

8 page Superman story "The Day Superman Broke the Law!"

Characters Superman; Councilman Finch (intro, villain); Fortress of Solitude (cameo); Kandor (cameo); Sheriff Todd
Synopsis Councilman Finch has Superman arrested for tiny infractions of the law so he will be in jail and unable to prevent his theft from the bank.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger?
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes Theater in story shows "Superman VS. the Mole Men".
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]

9 page Superman story "The Secret of the Superman Stamp!"

Characters Superman; Fortress of Solitude; Superman Museum; Lois Lane
Synopsis The city of Rangoon wants a photo of Superman for a new postage stamp.
Genre superhero
Script Ed Hamilton?
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes Reworked from a story in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #91.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]

9 page Superman story "The Town of Supermen!"

Characters Superman; eight Phantom Zone criminals (intro, villains); Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White
Synopsis Lois Lane is invited to a ghost town by eight escaped Phantom Zone criminals in a plot to capture Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Forte
Inks John Forte
Reprinted in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #104 (October 1970); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 [black and white]