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Issue Details

Issue #139
Published August 1960
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Mort Weisinger

Cover Details - "The New Life of Super-Merman!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lori Lemaris; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn]; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

9 page Superman story "The New Life of Super-Merman!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lori Lemaris (guest star); Ronal (guest star); Brett Rand (intro)
Synopsis Superman, Ronal and Lori fake a romance between Superman and Lori so that Lois will give up on marrying Superman and marry Brett Rand.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted In Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

8 page Superman story "The Jolly Jailhouse!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Colonel Stradi (intro, villain); Judge Rafol
Synopsis Colonel Stradi runs a corrupt prison in Voroda. When he arrests Clark Kent and has him imprisoned there, Superman decides to reveal to the world what Stradi had been keeping secret.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #201 (November 1967); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2

9 page Superman story "The Untold Story of Red Kryptonite!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Krypto; red kryptonite; Fortress of Solitude; green kryptonite (flashback); Superboy [Clark Kent](flashback); Kozz (flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback; cameo); Martha Kent (flashback; cameo); Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Superman Robot
Synopsis While rescuing a bathyscaph from the ocean bottom where it rests next to a Red Kryptonite meteor, Superman remembers all the other times that Red Kryptonite has affected him.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks John Forte
Notes Flashbacks to many Superboy / Superman Red Kryptonite stories. Inker id corrected from George Klein (credited in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1 reprint) to John Forte 2/09 by Bob Hughes.
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #8 (Winter 1963-64); in Best of DC, The (DC, 1979 series) #36; in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #[nn] (1971); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #2; in Showcase Presents: Supergirl (DC, 2007 series) #1