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 Man Who Married Lois Lane"
Pages: 9

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

Writer: Robert Bernstein
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted From:
Superman #136 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #262; next appearance in Superman #136)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #262; next appearance in Superman #136)

Other Character(s)

• X-Plam (a man from the future; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• X-Plam’s parents (no further appearances)

Cameo Appearance(s)

• Bizarro (in Lois’s recollection)
• Mr. Mxyzptlk (in Lois’s recollection)
• Power Man (in Lois’s recollection)

Synopsis:
A strange looking man from the future appears in a time machine and claims to be destinied to marry Lois Lane. The man’s strange appearance disgusts Lois, but the effects of our atmosphere turn him handsome. Lois is won over by the man and eventually marries him.

Lois travels to the future to live with her new husband, but the atmosphere there changes both of their appearances. Lois is horrified and regrets leaving her own time and Superman behind. X-Plam, her husband, sacrifices his life to return Lois to her own time where her appearance is restored.