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Superman #139

DC · Series began 1939 · August 1960

Dates

Cover date
August 1960
On sale
June 16, 1960
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Curt Swan, Wayne Boring, Al Plastino, Henry Boltinoffinks: Stan Kaye, Al Plastino, Henry Boltinoff, John Forteletters: Ira Schnappscript: Jerry Siegel, Jack Schiff, Jerry Coleman, Henry Boltinoff, Otto Binder

Stories

  • The New Life of Super-Merman! · 9 pages

    Superman, Ronal and Lori fake a romance between Superman and Lori so that Lois will give up on marrying Superman and marry Brett Rand.

  • The Jolly Jailhouse! · 8 pages

    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.

  • The Untold Story of Red Kryptonite! · 9 pages

    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 in unpredictable ways. This time it causes his hair, beard and nails to grow uncontrollably, and it takes the combined efforts of Supergirl and Krypto to clean him up.

Characters

Clark KentSupermanLois LaneJimmy OlsenKara Zor-ElSupergirlPerry WhiteSuperboyJonathan KentMartha KentKryptoLori Lemaris

Reprinted in

Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives (2004), Showcase Presents: Superman (2005), Superman Annual (1960), Superman Giant Bumper Book (1970), Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (1971), The Best of DC (1979), Superman Official Annual (1979), Showcase Presents: Supergirl (2007), DC Finest: Supergirl: The Girl of Steel (2025)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Identifiers and aliases from Wikidata (CC0).

Summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); each links to its article.