Need help - Old Superman story

[Erick Harper]

I remember reading in a comic book as a kid a short Superman story. I think it was a shorter story, not part of an ongoing book - may have even been used as filler in a completely different comic. Anyway, the basic premise was that Superman was lonely, so he goes looking for a wife. He can't marry a human woman, so he flies to several different planets (!) and finally finds people just like him - they all fly around all day with capes and everything. This is great. He meets a woman and they fall in love. He brings her back to Earth. That's when he discovers - the same yellow sun that gives him his power is fatal to her, so he has to take her back home and continue on by himself. It was a very poignant ending, as I recall.

Does anyone remember this? It would have been in the late 70s or early 80s when I was quite young.

[Dunnyman]

As far as when, I can't give you the exact, but I remember it as being in a large, hardcover treasury type of thing about Superman. Don't remember more than that myself, but it was pretty well done....for a DC comic anyways...

[TemporalWisdom]

It sounds familiar, but I think we're talking Golden Age Superman. You might have read an old issue, maybe a reprint. I'm going to try to find it, if I've read it I have it in a box somewhere.

[vjmurphy]

Looks like the story referenced here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luma_Lynai

From 1962, but reprinted a few times. Supergirl attempts to find a mate for the lonely Superman. Kinda known mostly for its disturbing ending, in which Superman hopes to find someone more like Supergirl.