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Issue Details

Issue #183
Published January 1966
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 80
Editing Mort Weisinger
Notes 80 pg. Giant G-18

Cover Details - "Prize Stories from the Superman Library!"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks George Klein
Notes 80 pg. Giant G-18
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn

13 page Superman story "Case of the Funny Paper Crimes"

Characters Funnyface (intro, villain); Detective Crane (intro); Prince Peril (intro); Solitary Rider (intro); Streak Duga (intro); Happy Daze (intro) (comic strip heroes); Superman; Lois Lane; Perry white
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils John Sikela
Inks Ed Dobrotka
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #19

10 page Superman; Untold Tales of Superman story "Clark Kent's College Days"

Characters Superboy; Professor Thaddeus V. Maxwell (intro); green kryptonite
Synopsis Superman recalls his college days, particularly the professor who tried to scientifically prove that Clark Kent was Superboy.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Al Plastino
Inks Al Plastino
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #125

13 page Superman story "When Superman Lost His Powers!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White
Genre superhero
Script Robert Bernstein
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #262

12 page Superman story "The Mysterious Mr. Mxyzptlk!"

Characters Mr. Mxyzptlk/Mr. Mxyztplk (intro, villain); Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis An imp from another dimension plagues Superman with practical jokes until he can make him say his name backwards.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Ira Yarbrough
Notes The original's Mr. Mxyztplk's name changed to Mr. Mxyzptlk throughout this story. Mxyztplk is pronounced "Mix-yizt-pulk" according to Alvin Schwartz. Name was changed to Mxyzptlk in 1958. Writer credit claimed by Jerry Siegel in a letter to Richard Morrissey that states this story was written prior to earlier printed newspaper sequence by Whitney Ellsworth and Wayne Boring. First line: "I--I thought I was the only one who could fly!!"
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #30 (September-October 1944) [original title: "The Mysterious Mr. Mxyztplk!", note the spelling]

12 page Superman story "Superman, Cartoon Hero!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; animated Superman; animated Lois
Synopsis Clark and Lois go to the movies to watch a Superman cartoon
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Joe Shuster (pencil layouts); Ed Dobrotka
Inks Shuster Shop?; John Sikela? (see notes)
Notes Clark Kent and Lois Lane see the 1st Fleisher Superman cartoon ("The Mad Scientist"), Archives does not credit Shuster's pencil layouts. Original index credits inks to John Sikela.
Reprinted from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #19 [original title: "Superman, Matinee Idol"]

13 page Superman story "The Eye of Metropolis!"

Characters Superman; Perry White; Lois Lane; John Bates (intro, villain); green kryptonite
Synopsis John Bates has Clark Kent appear on his TV show "The Eye of Metropolis" in order to expose his double life as Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #250