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Issue Details

Issue #136
Published April 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The Man Who Married Lois Lane!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; X-Plam
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

9 page Superman story "The Man Who Married Lois Lane"

Characters X-Plam (Intro; Death; marries Lois Lane); Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Power-Man (Flashback Cameo); Mr. Mxyzptlk (Flashback Cameo); Bizarro (Flashback Cameo)
Synopsis X-Plam comes from the future to marry Lois Lane. When he provides proof that they do get married then next day, Lois decides she will marry him and return to the future with him.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes X-Plam marries Lois Lane and then dies. This is not an imaginary story, so that makes Lois a widow in continuity, not that it's ever mentioned again.
Reprinted in Lois Lane Annual (DC, 1962 series) #2 (Summer 1963); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

9 page Superman story "The Secret of Kryptonite!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Superboy [Clark Kent] (flashback); Silk Smith (Villain); Professor Stanley Halley (Intro); Smallville Mayor Perkins; Lois Lane (Cameo); Jimmy Olsen (Cameo); Jonathan Kent (Flashback); Mel Evans (Flashback); Lana Lang (Flashback); Kryptonite
Synopsis The story of how the world discovered the effect that Kryptonite has on Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Notes An Untold Tale of Superman When He Was Superboy!
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #171 (November 1967); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

8 page Superman story "The Super-Clown of Metropolis!"

Characters Sad Sam Smith (Intro); Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Fortress of Solitude
Synopsis Sad Sam will give a billion dollars to charity to the person who can make him laugh.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2