As we move onto page 251, we find that Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, and Steve Lombard are participating in a news conference at a Navy Trident nuclear submarine that is scheduled to be manned by an all-female crew. Jimmy goes into a detailed description of the Trident submarine’s capabilities, when Lois spots a familiar figure in a Naval uniform.

Before long, Luthor and Eve—both in full naval uniforms—make their way to a secret compartment where they intend to hack into the submarine with three steel briefcases. At that same moment, drill sirens go off, interrupting Luthor’s plans, and the Trident submarine reaches the surface of the ocean.

All over the submarine, Naval officers scramble to arm the firing computers and get the missiles prepared for launch.

Before long, Superman arrives on the scene and investigates what’s going on with the Trident sub.

It’s then that Eve realizes what Luthor is up to. He had intended to use his briefcases to obtain the military’s secret codes to override and take control of the Trident’s computers so he could launch the sub’s missiles himself. In the process he and Eve knocked out the sub’s personnel with gas pellets from the security briefcases and make their own getaway.

Superman uses his x-ray vision and notices dozens of bathyspheres about to be launched from the submarine into the ocean.

Superman then descends into the ocean and retrieves all of the bathyspheres, returning them to the submarine. He then gets into one of the bathyspheres as it ascends back to the submarine.

By this time Luthor has subdued all of the naval officers and replaced them with men loyal to him. He then begins broadcasting his demands to the President, but is soon stopped when Superman arrives to the bridge and smashes one of the consoles.

But Luthor is one step ahead of the Man of Steel. He has his finger on the trigger console that will fire nuclear missiles towards the United States. “Just one flick of the eyelid on your part and I pull this trigger, and half of the United States gets wiped out.”

“You’ll never get away with this,” Superman responds.

“I have my plans. My brains against your brawn.”

Superman is forced to leave the submarine, but once under the sea he begins to pull the submarine towards the bottom of the ocean floor, and this time there is no escape for Luthor and his crew.

The next day, Jimmy Olsen broadcasts on WGBS that Luthor would give up his prisoners in exchange for amnesty for himself and his henchmen. It turns out that Luthor had served in World War II and rose to the rank of Vice Admiral in the Navy and becoming a skilled negotiator in the process. How he went from being an accomplished Naval officer to a great criminal genius is beyond me.

Next time: an even greater threat to the world, and a secret revealed…