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Issue Details

Issue #243
Published August 1958
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "The Lady and the Lion"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

12 page Superman story "The Lady and the Lion"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; Circe; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; kryptonite
Synopsis Circe gives Superman a potion that causes him to have the head of a lion until he discovers the antidote.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman Annual (1960 series) #3 (Summer 1961); in Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (DC, 2004 series) #1; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

6 page Tommy Tomorrow story "Puzzle of the Perilous Planetoid"

Genre science fiction
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Jim Mooney
Inks Jim Mooney
Reprinted in World's Finest Comics (DC, 1941 series) #156 (March 1966)

6 page Congo Bill story "The Five From The Future"

Genre jungle
Pencils Howard Sherman
Inks Howard Sherman