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Issue Details

Issue #127
Published February 1959
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 36
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Mort Weisinger (actual)

Cover Details - "Titano!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Titano
Genre superhero
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Stan Kaye
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

8 page Superman; An Untold Tale of Superman story "When There Was No Clark Kent!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Perry White
Synopsis Superman recalls a time when it appeared that Clark Kent had died, so he abandoned his double life and moved in with Jimmy Olsen. But Superman quickly learned the value of a secret identity and resurrected Clark.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Ray Burnley
Notes inker credit correction from Christopher Melchert
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #197 (June-July 1967); in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1; in Supermann (Williams Forlag A/S, 1969 series) #12/1969

7 page Superman story "The Make-Believe Superman"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Tommy Winters; Harry Winters
Synopsis Harry Winters dreads the day he is supposed to dress in the clothes in which he did his most heroic dead for his son's school because he thinks he has never done anything heroic. Putting on a Superman costume from a masquerade ball, however, Harry Winters heroically helps the real Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Coleman
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Writing credit from Showcase reprint.
Reprinted in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1

7 page Superman story "Titano the Super-Ape!"

Characters Superman; Lois Lane; Titano [Toto]
Synopsis Lois befriends the intelligent chimp Toto just before he is sent into orbit inside a satellite. While in orbit, the satellite passes by a collision of a uranium metorite and a kryptonite meteorite, which causes the chimp to grow to enormous size and shoot kryptonite beams from his eyes. Because of his transformation, Lois re-names him Titano. Though not meaning any harm, Titano poses a threat to humanity, and Superman, Lois and the army trap the giant chimp, planning to execute him. But Lois devises a plan to block Titano's kryptonite vision so Superman can send him into the distant past where he can't harm anyone.
Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Wayne Boring
Inks Stan Kaye
Notes Titano's second appearance, in Superman (DC, 1939 series) 138, has the same story title.
Reprinted in Superman Annual (DC, 1960 series) #2 (1960); in Superman (Signet Books, 1966 series) #D2966 (May 1966); in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #239 (June-July 1971); in Superman in the Fifties (DC, 2002 series) #nn; in Showcase Presents Superman (DC, 2005 series) #1