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2nd Printing Cover

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Genres: superhero

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Notes: Figures taken from the cover from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #41.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]

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Peril on Pogo Island

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Niles Grant; Nan Wilson; Carl Bogart (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: For doing such a great job, Lois and Clark are given a cruise vacation aboard the "Grenodier", where they meet Nan Wilson, who has inherited Pogo Island, and she invites the two to visit her island. But the superstitious natives believe that Nan is a witch and several attempts are made on her life. Superman, however, discovers that the island is being used as a base for submarines belonging to a foreign nation which prey on merchant marine vessels in neutral waters.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Art credited only to Nowak in this volume.

The Suicide Murders

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Sgt. Casey; Thomas Corday (cameo, death); Daniel Steele (cameo, death); Robert Starbuck (cameo, death); Eugene Starbuck; Burton Steele; Senator McPhail; Max Binder; Malford; Bryson; "The Boss" (villain, introduction); Chips (villain, death)

Synopsis: After investigating three mysterious deaths, Clark Kent writes an article on the deaths, which he believes are actually murders, carried out by the same man, a man of unusual criminal intelligence. When Superman investigates, he discovers the case is much more complex than he first thought, but proves his theory to be correct.

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The Grotak Bund

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Sgt. Casey; Stanley Pelham; Sam Spencer; Calvin Denby (villain, introduction); The Grotak Bund (villains, introduction)

Synopsis: After a series of explosions at American defense industries, Superman rounds up members of the Grotak Bund, an organization that has orders to destroy certain American factories to seriously slow down U.S. defense operations.

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The Beasts of Luthor

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Dudley Barnes (death); Allen Masters (villain, death); Stephen Cardine (villain, reforms, death); Lex Luthor (villain); Bill Grimes (villain, reforms, death); von Harbitz (villain, reforms, death)

Synopsis: Lois and Clark excitedly listen to a story by a scientist, who tells them of a forced visit he made to Baracoda Island, where giant animals were artifically being breeded. However, when he discovered that he had become part of a plot to use the animals to conquer the world and set up a scientific dictatorship, he wanted no part of it and escaped to warn the outside world.

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Pages: 13

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]

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The Saboteur

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Sgt. Casey; Jeff Stanton; Steve Grant (villain); Ralph Cowan (villain)

Synopsis: Superman follows up leads in a case involving the sabotage of the Gargan Factory by saboteurs bent on causing wide-spread destruction.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Art credited to John Sikela in this volume.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]

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City in the Stratosphere

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen [cameo]; Carl Bransom; Nick Flaerty; John Standing; Freeman Chase; Luthor [as Zytal] (villain, bald); Jake Mobray (villain, death) Dirk Chadwick (villain, death)

Synopsis: A series of strange disappearances of prominent men in the city of Metropolis makes Clark Kent believe the kidnappings weren't under ordinary circumstances. When, as Superman, he tries to get information from local mobsters, they are suddenly destroyed by a ray out of the blue. He later discovers that Luthor built a giant city in the sky, and the arch for then hypnotizes Superman into doing his bidding.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Art credited to John Sikela in this volume.

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; the Nazis

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The Light

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Senator Tom Billingsley; The Light [Lex Luthor] (villain)

Synopsis: Superman must battle Lex Luthor who is disguised as The Light, a criminal who kidnaps prominent men from many different fields, hypnotizes them with colored lights, and makes them do his bidding.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Art credited only to Nowak in this volume.

The Archer

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen (name Jimmy revealed); Lois Lane; Perry White; Sgt. Casey; Thomas Gayford (death); Amos Kendrick; The Archer [Quigley] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: A new villain hits the front pages of Metropolis' newspapers, a villain who prefers hunting human beings for profit rather than animals, and when Perry White cannot locate Lois or Clark to cover the story, a young office boy at the Daily Planet takes on the job himself --- and gets his first by-line!

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Pages: 13

Notes: Jimmy Olsen is a blond in this story.

Baby on the Doorstep

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Bob Pierson (a baby, introduction); Clara Pierson (his mother); Leila (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Clark Kent receives a note to go to a certain address to pick up a baby and to care for it for a few days. But when attempts are made to kidnap the child, Superman intervenes and discovers that the mother was trying to protect the child from enemy agents who believed she knew the secret of her late husband's war-time invention.

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The City Beneath the Earth

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Tulan (introduction); Kyack (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: Superman discovers an underground civilization beneath Metropolis that has been using a ray apparatus to destroy buildings in Metropolis and elsewhere. He meets with Kyack and learns that this civilization once populated the Earth before the ice age, and the glaciers forced them underground, where they built their new civilization. Now they are planning an invasion of the Earth's surface and restore the rule they once had over it.

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Pages: 13

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Robin [Dick Grayson]

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The Case of the Crime Crusade

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Hugh Manton; Dan Bransom (villain)

Synopsis: A series of unusual streetcar accidents are being masterminded by someone and Clark & Lois begin an investigation to uncover the person sabotaging the rail system.

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Pages: 13

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]

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The Crashing Planes

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; unnamed butler (villain, death); Dutch O'Leary (villain); his gang (villains)

Synopsis: Several planes belonging to Skyway Airlines have mysteriously crashed and Perry White assigns Lois to investigate, all of which leads to peril facing Clark and Lois until Superman figures out the true culprit.

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Pages: 13

Notes: Art credited only to Nowak in this volume.