Showcase Presents: Superman Part 4

This is the forth of numerous posts on Showcase Presents: Superman. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed the stories.

Now, this won't be like most comic blogs with scanned pictures posted throughout. Mostly because I don't have a scanner, but the stories should speak for themselves, but also because I want to go through the whole book in the next few weeks, and I want non-comics readers to enjoy the kookiness that us comics readers understand from the Silver Age. While I may mock these stories, I am not making anything up, this is all straight from the comics! While I may mock, I love these stories and the character of Superman. This is great stuff! The cover scans are from The Grand Comic Book Database.

With this forth addition I am going to add my own Tagline for each story, giving a brief explanation.

Superman # 124

"The Super-Sword."

Tagline: Superman fights the Black Knight, who wields King Arthur's magic sword."

Clark and Lois are sitting together listening to the radio and trying to come up with a new story for the Daily Planet when they hear over the radio that a knight in armor was found floating in the north, trapped in a glacier. Clark immediately takes off as Superman when he arrives he realizes that they knight is alive (I know, I was shocked too).

The knight is placed in a cabin on the boat where he quickly breaks out and decides to steal stuff, because what else would a thousand year old man want to do? He is able to break into any vault with his sword. Superman rushes to stop him and is stabbed in the arm and leg by the Black Knight. He is then rushed to the to the hospital. A mob boss sees this on the news and finds the Black Knight, offering him $30,000 to borrow the sword. Superman shows up, is stabbed again and is fine. Well, guess what? As is the norm for these Silver Age stories, the Black Knight is really an elaborate ruse to trap the mob boss. He was played by Perry White and everyone has a good laugh.

"Mrs Superman"

Tagline: Lois and Clark crash land on a volcanic island so, obviously, they get married.

As Lois and Clark are flying back from reporting on a story, a meteor comes crashing down near their helicopter, forcing them to bail out. They land on a volcanic island, where Clark immediately slips away to change into Superman and get help. Turns out he can't. As usual, must be kryptonite. Yup, that meteor crashed into the volcano and is spewing kryptonite dust all over the island, creating a barrier that he cannot escape.

Superman decides there is no way they can ever leave so he reveals his secret to Lois and proposes. He sure gives up easy. She agrees as soon as Superman proves it really is him and some natives marry them. He builds her a house. As she is preparing for the wedding, there is an earthquake and the kryptonite falls so deep into the earth that the barrier disappears. He decides to back out of his proposal (cold feet) and begins to refute all of the proofs he gave to Lois when he proposed, claiming that he was Clark all along, faking Superman's powers with magnets, papier-mache, and a blow torch. He then secretly tosses out a message in a bottle so they will be rescued. Lois is pissed at Clark for lying and trying to trick her into marrying him, but they are rescued, and she pines for Superman even more.

I'll be back next week with more!