Comic Title: Showcase Presents Superman Vol. 2 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2006
On Sale Date: June 21, 2006 Direct Market Date June 14, 2006
Source: Previews, Vol. 16 #3 (#207)

Direct Market Date June 21, 2006
Source: Usenet, New Releases List for Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 576
Editor: Emily Ryan Lerner

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The New Life of Super-Merman"
Pages: 9

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted From:
Superman #139 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in World's Finest Comics #111; next appearance in Superman #139)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #266; next appearance in Superman #139)
• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #266; next appearance in Superman #139)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #46; next appearance in Superman #139)
• Lori Lemaris (last appearance in Superman #138; next appearance in Action Comics #269)

Other Character(s)

• Ronal (last appearance in Superman #138; next appearance in Action Comics #269)
• Brett Rand (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Clark Kent and Lois Lane are invited aboard a millionaire’s yacht. The millionaire, Brett Rand, is an old classmate of Lois’s. Brett is enamored by Lois and proposes to her. However, Lois refuses, saving herself for Superman.

Later, Superman rescues Lori Lemaris who is caught in a fishing net. Lois meets Lori for the first time and sees that Superman still adores her. When Lois returns to the Daily Planet, she sees, using a televiewer, Superman preventing a disaster of an undersea volcano. A tremor causes a giant boulder to strike Lori’s husband Ronal, killing him. Ronal’s dying wish is for Superman to make Lori happy. Using an Atlantean science, he is transformed into a merman and begins a new life with Lori. Lois wishes them well.

With Superman out of the picture, Brett proposes to Lois again. She decides that she does not want any man and goes for a drive. She is nearly killed in a car wreck, but Superman saves her. He played a hoax on Lois so that she would marry Brett and not wait for him. Ronal never really died. Lois continues to hope that one day Superman will marry her.