Episode #1: My Top 10 Favorite Superman Stories

First, let me note that I updated my previous blog. I added a book: The Great Comic Book Heroes by Jules Feiffer, Bonanza, 1965. Also, I added another open question: Have you read any books about comic book history in general or Superman in particular, that I haven't read?
Next, let me thank the Grand Comic Book Database at www.comics.org. That website was invaluable for finding at least some of the creator credits to some of the older stories on my list.
And finally, My Top 10 Favorite Superman Stories:
Honorable Mention:
--Superboy Meets Robin from Adventure Comics #253, October 1958.
Cover: pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Stan Kaye.
Writer: Dave Wood, penciller: Al Plastino, inks, colors, letters: unknown
Editor: Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff, Managing Editor, Mort Weisinger and George Kashdan, Story Editors.
Reprints: Superboy #133, October 1966, Teen Titans #36, November 1971, The Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told, DC, 1990.
--Must There Be A Superman? from Superman #247, January 1972.
Cover: pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Murphy Anderson
Writer: Elliot S! Maggin (S! is no typo. He signed his stories this way because he said there were no (.)'s in comic books.), penciller: Curt Swan, inks: Murphy Anderson.
Editor: Julius Schwartz.
Reprints: The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, vol. 1 1987, Superman in the Seventies, DC 2000.
--The Price from Superman #22, October 1988.
Cover: John Byrne, pencils and inks.
Writer, penciller and inker: John Byrne.
Colorist: Petra Scotese.
Letterer: John Costanza.
Assistant Editor: Renee Witterstatter.
Editor: Mike Carlin.
10. Superman's Forbidden Room from All-Star Superman #2, February 2006, and Sweet Dreams Superwoman from All-Star Superman #3, May 2006.
Covers: Frank Quitely (pencils, inks and colors)
Writer: Grant Morrison, pencils: Frank Quitely, digital inks and colors: Jamie Grant, letters: Phil Balsam.
Reprint: All-Star Superman, vol. 1, DC 2007.
9. The Fantastic Story of Superman's Sons from Superman #166, November, 1964.
Cover: pencils: Curt Swan, inks: George Klein.
Writer: Edmund Hamilton, pencils: Curt Swan, inks: George Klein, colors and letters: (?).
Reprint: DC's Greatest Imaginary Stories, 2005.
8.Superman and Batman ... Brothers from World's Finest #172, December 1967.
Cover: pencils: Curt Swan, inks: George Klein.
Writer: Jim Shooter (16 years old when this story was published), pencils: Curt Swan, inks: George Klein.
Reprint: DC's Greatest Imaginary Stories, 2005.
7. Funeral In Smallville from All-Star Superman #6, March 2007.
Same credits as for All-Star Superman issues 2 and 3.
(This story reminds me of the cover story to Superman #181, The Superman of 2965.)
6. Superman #338, August 1979, 40th Anniversary story where Superman finally restores the bottle city of Kandor to normal size.
Cover: pencils: Ross Andru, inks: Dick Giordano.
Writer: Len Wein, pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Frank Chiarmonte, colors: Glynis Wein, letters: Ben Oda.
Editor: Julius Schwartz.
This story also credits Marv Wolfman for suggesting the idea.
5. The Einstein Connection from Superman #416, February 1986.
Covers: pencils and inks: Eduardo Barreto.
Writer: Elliot S! Maggin, pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Al Williamson, colors: Gene D'Angelo, letters: Ed King.
Editor: Julius Schwartz.
No known reprints. Should be copies in back issue bins at comic book stores. If you know of a reprint, send me an e-mail.
4. The Death of Superman from Superman #149, November 1961.
Cover: pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Stan Kaye. (Cover has a pink background.)
Writer: Jerry Siegel (yes, that Jerry Siegel!), pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Sheldon Moldoff.
Reprints: Superman #193, January-February 1967, The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, 1987, Showcase Presents: Superman vol. 3, 2005.
3. For the Man Who Has Everything from Superman Annual #11, 1985.
Cover: pencils and inks by Dave Gibbons.
Writer: Alan Moore, penils, inks and letters: Dave Gibbons, colors: Tom Ziuko.
Editor: Julius Schwartz.
Reprints: The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore, DC 2006.
2. Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? from Superman #423 and Action Comics #583, September 1986.
Covers for both issues: pencils: Curt Swan, inks: Murphy Anderson (signed Swanderson).
The cover for Action Comics #583 featured four small figures in front of the cast of DC characters: Murphy Anderson, Curt Swan, Jeanette Kahn (publisher) and Julius Schwartz (waving).
Superman #423 writer: Alan Moore, pencils: Curt Swan, inks: George Perez, colors: Gene D'Angelo, letters: Todd Klein.
Editor: Julius Schwartz.
Credits for Action Comics# 583 are the same except for inker: Kurt Schaffenberger (long-time penciller on Lois Lane).
1. The Team of Luthor and Brainiac from Superman #167, February 1964.
Cover: (from an idea by a teen-aged and futer Superman writer Cary Bates) pencils, Curt Swan, inks: George Klein.
Plot: Cary Bates, writer: Edmund hamilton, pencils: Curt Swan, inks: George Klein.
In the letters column Metropolis Mailbag is a note from the editor explaining why Brainiac was explained as a robot instead of a flesh and blood alien as previously assumed.
Reprints: Superman #245, December1971-January 1972, 100 pages, (This was the issue, minus the cover, that I first read this story. I don't have this issue any more.), The Great Superman Comic Book Collection, DC , 1981, The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, vol. 2, 2006 (with an Alex Ross cover).
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