We begin with "Superman, You're Dead... Dead... Dead" by Leo Dorfman, Curt Swan, and Murphy Anderson. While attempting to stop an out-of-control solar furnace, Superman is transported through time, landing in a crystalline dome with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and George Custer. Superman escapes the dome and finds himself in a 24th Century museum. The researchers at the museum brought the historical figures into their time moments before their own deaths. Superman is told that he is actually the third Superman. Two others had died previously. He sees their bodies (Once again, the outrageous DC cover is actually a real scene from the story).
Superman is convinced by the researchers who then send Superman back to his own time. He believes he will die stopping the solar furnace, but he doesn't. Superman then realizes that the research lab must have existed on a parallel Earth. Some of their facts such as Washington freeing the slaves were clearly wrong indicating that their history was different. On his Earth, Superman is the only Superman, and he is still alive. Reprinted in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies HC (1971), Best of DC #12 (1981), and Superman from the 30s to the 80s HC (1983).
Our backup is "Superbaby's Lost World" by Leo Dorfman, Curt Swan, and Murphy Anderson. When Clark is a toddler, the Kents visit an amusement park where Clark gets separated from his foster parents. Two jewel thieves, Connie and Hyde, offer to help Clark, but they are really using him as a cover to hide from the police. When Clark begins using his powers, the thieves nearly drown. Clark then takes them to a fake volcano, where the smoke nearly kills them. Clark uses his super-breath to cause the crooks to fall from the top of the volcano into the waiting hands of the police. No one believes their story about there being a super-child. The Kents are able to find Clark and take him home.
Edited by Murray Boltinoff.
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