This is "Don't Send Me No More Letters No." In this feature I spotlight responses that amuse me for whatever reason by "Superman" family editor Mort Weisinger to letters fans wrote in to the Superman family of titles back in the 1950s and 1960s.

Today, we look at Mort Weisinger coming up with the only POSSIBLE explanation for Perry White's unusual fish-eating habits.

Action Comics #262 is notable for the opening tale, by Robert Bernstein, Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye, which is the first comic book story that established that Superman loses his powers when he is on a planet with a red sun! We learn this as Superman and his friends go to a strange world...

In a fascinating bit of subtlety, they don't actually come right out and SAY that the reason that Superman has lost his powers is because of the red sun, but we see that Clark, Lois, Perry and Jimmy are transported to another world with a red sun and we see that Superman has lost his powers...

Then, later in the issue, in a WHOLE OTHER STORY that was not even written by Bernstein, Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney show Superman explaining to Supergirl about the whole red sun/yellow sun deal.

Okay, so Superman doesn't have powers. He can't let the others know that, though, so he comes up with various tricks to make it seem like he still has powers, as Jimmy and Perry try to stay alive in this new world...

Perry and Jimmy catch some fish and Superman comes up with a clever way to get them cooked...

Then the others enjoy the cooked fish before returning home (and doing the whole "WAS IT ALL JUST A DREAM?" bit that I always hate)...

However, one reader saw this story and they had a major concern. How in the world could Perry White possibly eat a whole fish like that without running into any bones? So they felt that they had to (they were practically OBLIGED) to write into the Superman titles to complain!

In Action Comics #267, the letter was written along with Mort Weisinger's outstanding answer...

Yep, that's the ticket. Edible bones from fish in another dimension!

That is just the best answer.

If anyone else has a suggestion for a good Mort Weisinger reply to an old school fan letter, drop me a line at brianc@cbr.com!