Comic Title: Showcase Presents:Superman Family Vol. 3 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2009
On Sale Date: February 25, 2009 Direct Market Date February 25, 2009
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Direct Market Date February 25, 2009
Source: Previews, #242

Cover Price: $16.99
Page Count: 520
Editor: Sean Mackiewicz

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Super-Family of Steel"
Pages: 26

Feature(s):
Lois Lane (of Earth-1)

Writer: Edmond Hamilton
Artist: Kurt Schaffenberger

Reprinted From:
Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #15 (1960)

Feature Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #135; next appearance in Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen #43)

Supporting Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #135; next appearance in Brave and the Bold #28)
• Lana Lang (last appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #12; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #17)
• Van Zee (a Kandorian; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #21)
• Sylvia (last name DeWitt; marries Van Zee in this story; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #21)

Other Character(s)

• Lyle and Lili (Van Zee’s children; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #21)
• Laura Barton (a ship passenger; no further appearances)
• Sir Essex and Sylvia’s father (no further appearances)

Comments:
The primary characters in this story appear to be Superman and Lois Lane, but they are really Van Zee and Sylvia DeWitt, both of whom are identical in appearance to the aforementioned couple.

Zak-Kul’s enlarging ray from the first story of Action Comics #245 is shown in this story.

Synopsis:
A woman posing as Jane Brown boards a cruise ship. The woman looks like Lois Lane and her cabin-mate suspects that she is undercover. When the woman falls overboard, she is rescued by a man in a Superman costume.

The couple marries and moves to Venus. They have two children, Lyle and Lili. The woman is even granted super powers with a super-serum. However, when she spots her husband kissing Lana Lang back on Earth, she becomes jealous.

They visit the Fortress of Solitude where Superman meets them. The man is Van Zee, a Kandorian who was accidently enlarged. The woman is Sylvia DeWitt, a rich heiress and Lois Lane look-alike. Sylvia realizes that it was the real Superman who kissed Lana, not her husband, Van Zee. The couple is shrunk by Superman and moves into Kandor permanently.