was priced $249.00 

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Superman Issue 137 from May 1960 is Graded by CGC at Very Fine (7.5) with Cream to Off-White Pages!

PRICING NOTES: Superman issue 137  is priced in the 2011 Overstreet in 9.2 @ $450.00; the Overstreet Guide does NOT recognize this issue with any guide notes, yet it is one of the most famous Silver Age Superman stories of all!  In Comics.org (the Comics database) there is the following info for Superman 137:

Written by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, the full book length drama (rare for 1960 DC storylines) ends in a battle between the 2 adult Super-beings; it was NOT written as an imaginary story...but an untold event in the Superman continuity. The classic cover and interior art for this work was drawn by (arguably) the greatest Superman artist of all time -- Curt Swan.  

The detailed cover of issue #137 was cut-off & reprinted (with just the scene of a flying Superman with a thin black mask) in the MORE well read & popular issue of 80 Page Giant #1, from 1964:

In retelling the origin of Superman,  Superman Co-Creator Jerry Siegel asserts a new set of details of the baby Kal-el's trip to earth from doomed Krypton; passed through a "cosmic space cloud" of unknown energy--and an artificially created duplicate of the rocket & it's contents (including Kal-el) was formed, who (unlike the Bizarro imperfect duplicate), was a PERFECT copy of Superman, although a non-living essence created by chance in space of pure "cosmic force."  This storyline of a "cosmic cloud in space that alters humans in a rocket flying through it" was a full year or more BEFORE the origin story told in the 1st appearance of the Fantastic Four (#1).

This "creature" landed on earth in a duplicate rocket, but while the "real" baby Kal-el fell into the hands of the loving Kents, the "other' being went to the hands of Wolf and Bonnie Derek ('Bo Derek' ? you must be kidding...no, that was the step -mothers name, in 1960!), a husband & wife team of evil (but VERY small-time) criminals, who raised the super-powered being in opposite standards to the good values of the Kent family.

To assist you in evaluating the book, we provide scans as follows:

1. front cover and back cover
2. picture of reader copy
3. picture of 80 Pg Giant #1 (where this story acheived its greatest prominenece!)