Issue | #3 |
Published | Summer 1961 |
Cover Price | 0.25 USD |
Pages | 84 |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Notes | On Sale Date - June 22nd 1961 |
Characters | Superman; green kryptonite |
Genre | superhero |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3 |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Lois Lane; Dr. Edna Blaine; Julia Johns; Sonya Sophia; Betty Dunn (all as the Super Sorority); Superman; green kryptonite; Amazons; Queen Elsha (villain) |
Synopsis | The Super Sorority are marooned on an uncharted island inhabited by a race of Amazons, Superman arrives but realises that there is an antidote for Kryptonite somewhere nearby. He goes along with Queen Elsha's schemes until he can find the source of his Kryptonite immunity. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #235 (December 1957) |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; Dr. Norton; green kryptonite |
Synopsis | Superman's face is scarred during a mission, he must cover up using initially, bandages and then an iron mask until he can remedy the situation. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Edmond Hamilton |
Pencils | Wayne Boring |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #239 (April 1958) |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Perry White; Hairy Sam; Injun Ike; Sinbad the Sailor; The Gladiator; The Dutch Devil; The Ugly Superman (later the Gorgeous Superman) |
Synopsis | Lois Lane shows kindness to the wrestler known as the Ugly Superman but he then becomes besotted with her, after giving Clark Kent a sound beating he undergoes plastic surgery and becomes the Gorgeous Superman. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Robert Bernstein |
Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Reprinted | from Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane (DC, 1958 series) #8 (April 1959) |
Genre | Superhero |
Script | Julius Schwartz? (as Editor) |
Letters | typeset |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; Circe (villain); Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Fortress of Solitude; green kryptonite; Kandor |
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 | Wayne Boring |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #243 (August 1958) |
Characters | Fortress of Solitude; Jor-El (statue); Lara (statue); Jonathan Kent (statue); Martha Kent (statue); Superboy (statue); Superman (statue); Batman (statue); Robin [Dick Grayson] (statue); Supergirl (statue); Lois Lane (statue); Jimmy Olsen (statue); Perry White (statue); Kandor |
Genre | Superhero |
Reprinted | in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn] |
Characters | Superman; Professor Wright; Lois Lane; Dirk Folgar; green kryptonite; Atlantis |
Synopsis | Superman poses as the Future Superman, who has the power to predict the future, to smoke out Agent X-3 and prevent an attempt on the life of the President. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Otto Binder |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Stan Kaye |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #256 (September 1959) |
Characters | Superman; Prof. Vance; Fortress of Solitude; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Superman robot; The Clock (villain); green kryptonite |
Synopsis | When Clark Kent drinks Prof. Vance's life-extending vitamin serum, which contains particles of Kryptonite, it ages him to about 70 years old. Since his robots won't respond to his aged voice, Superman must fulfill his duties as the Old Man of the Sea, Santa Claus, and Father Time so that no one realizes that Clark Kent is Superman. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Robert Bernstein |
Pencils | Al Plastino |
Inks | Al Plastino |
Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #251 (April 1959) |
Characters | Superman; Lois Lane; Chet Hartley |
Synopsis | When Superman sees Lois get out of a date by making herself look ridiculous, he changes his appearance to teach her a lesson. |
Genre | superhero |
Script | Jerry Coleman |
Pencils | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Inks | Kurt Schaffenberger |
Notes | Superman makes himself look like Alfred E. Neuman. |
Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #126 (January 1959) |
Characters | Superman |
Synopsis | A Superman pin up. |
Genre | Superhero |
Notes | Backcover. |
Reprinted | in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #3; in Superman in the Sixties (DC, 1999 series) #[nn] |