Showcase Present Superman: Part 6

This is the six 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 Comic Book Database.


Action Comics # 244


"The Super-Merman of the Sea"


Tagline: "Superman = Aquaman"


This story starts with Clark Kent leaving or a two week vacation of patrolling Metropolis and the world. Fun! Soon he sees a rocket slam into the ocean and when he goes to rescue the travelers her finds that they are mer-people from the Water World (you know, like we live on Dirt Planet). Superman mysteriously decides to stay underwater with them and leaves a stupid note floating on the surface for a sailor to see "AM UNDER SEA EXILE SUPERMAN." A one panel interlude shows Superman telling the merman that he is going to abandon the surface world forever. Is this the end of the Superman we know forever?! No, it's not, don't be stupid.


Jimmy Olsen decides to investigate and can't figure out why Superman is not coming back up, so he decides to go down under water and ask him. Turns out Superman is building an underwater Fortress of Solitude and he includes a big sign " Superman's Fortress of Solitude Submarines and Divers Keep Out". That should work well. As soon as Jimmy shows up Superman waves him away. It appears that Superman wants to be Aquaman as he monitors the seven seas. But, the best part? He uses a Guided Missile Whale (!) to gather deep sea specimens.


Lois ventures underwater next and sees Superman acting like he is in love with a mermaid. She follows them and finds another building "Home of Mr. and Mrs. Superman" with two thrones labelled "King and Queen of the Sea" inside. Again, Superman is incredibly modest.


The nations of the world decide they need to capture Superman and interrogate him to figure out why he ditched them, so they shoot a kryptonite tipped torpedo at him. I think I would have ditched them too! Superman escapes in his Guided Missile Whale and continues to help Vul-Kor the mer-man in his plot against to cover the entire surface of the planet in water using Global Warming!! Vul-Kor beings to weaken and eventually decides to abandon his plan on Earth. Superman had been poisoning him with extra salt in the water. He had to pretend to be on their side so they didn't call for backup. He poisoned them so they would never come back, but he had to abandon us dirt folk so that Vul-Kor would believe him. Genius! And perfect timing, he was done in enough time to get back to work after Clark's vaction!