"Imaginary Novels" should be a regular DC title; get outta here with that "Dark Multiverse" jazz.

Looking more closely at it, the cover doesn't give away the game. From 1970, Superman #231, "The Wheel of Super-Fortune!" Written by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Dan Adkins.

This was a relatively later-period "imaginary novel," the out-of-continuity What If?-style numbers DC used to do. At a glance, this would be the last one for the title until Superman #300, but they appeared sporadically until Alan Moore's "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" After that, these stories would be Elseworlds or...ugh...Tales from the Dark Multiverse. (I'm harshing a bit on the latter, because you kinda know from the title how things are gonna go.)

Here, we've got Lex Luthor, Superman; trying to convince his crush Lois Lane why she should stay away from the recently-awoken-from-a-coma Clark Kent: he's a criminal! The Kents had been bank robbers, oh, and Jor-El destroyed Krypton to avenge his wife's death, then came to earth with toddler Lex; as we see in flashback from a mystic swami who gives tips to crooks, after he's paid off by Clark, who then kills him...look, maybe it'd be easier to tell you what crazy nonsense doesn't happen in this comic?

Also this ish: a reprint of "Superman's Fatal Costume" from 1957's Superman #112: after running a "spectroscopic analysis," from a distance, of Superman's costume, Lex figures out how to irradite it to cause weird effects, like generating intense heat or changing metal to wood? Lex makes one slip-up, though: he accidentally changes the lead in his armored hideout truck to something else, and Supes spots him. It'd still be years before anyone pointed out a big lead truck would kind of stick out to him, anyway.