Ol' Groove doesn't know why, but for some reason when I was a kid I was always enamored of
Superman stories which featured the
Man of Steel in some sort of impossible romantic entanglement. Toss together the menace of a skeletal dinosaur, the opportunity to rid the earth of ills like poverty and pollution, yet another
Superman double (hadn't
Supes just defeated the sandy-duplicate?), and a hot alien chick, top it off with stunning, stunning art by Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson, and yeah, you've got yourself another
Groove's Faves offering. Nice work, writer Cary Bates! From
Superman #243 (August 1971), get ready to meet..."The Starry-Eyed Siren of Space!"
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Cover art by Neal Adams and Dick Giordano |