Showcase #10

From 1957 comes this delightful DC Showcase spotlight on Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane, with cover art penciled by Wayne Boring and inked by Stan Kaye. The cover presents a wonderfully tense scene: Superman looks on with alarm as a pink chest — "The Forbidden Box from Krypton!" — bursts open, releasing three glowing, disembodied super-powers that streak toward a startled Lois, who backs away clutching a small key. The cover's own caption warns that Lois's curiosity in opening that chest has unleashed three super-powers which may doom the world, making this ten-cent issue a genuinely irresistible snapshot of Silver Age DC storytelling at its most imaginative.