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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published February 1940
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Joe Shuster
Inks Paul Cassidy
Letters typeset
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #2 (1998).

13 page Superman story "The Atomic Disintegrator"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Terry Curtis (I); Metropolis (mentioned); V: Ultra [Ultra-Humanite, as Dolores Winters]; George Taylor.
Synopsis Ultra hears of the invention by Terry Curtis of an atomic disintegrator he has created and vows to get it, all in order to further advance his plan to dominate the world.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Joe Shuster (signed)
Inks Dennis Neville?
Notes Oddity: on page 1, Clark Kent mysteriously is shown in a suit, then undershirt, and back to suit again with no explanation. The last panel of the story introduces by illo and text a new feature called The Spectre. Synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-21-08.
Reprinted In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #2 (1998).

6 page Pep Morgan story "The Florida Handicap Race"

Characters Pep Morgan
Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter)
Inks Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter)
Notes Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-21-08.

4 page Chuck Dawson story

Characters Chuck Dawson
Genre western
Pencils Homer Fleming
Inks Homer Fleming

6 page Clip Carson story "The Gun-Running Racket"

Characters Clip Carson
Genre adventure
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

10 page Tex Thomson story "The Doll Murders"

Characters Tex Thomson; Bob Daley; Col. Rushmore; Gargantua T. Potts.
Genre adventure
Script Ken Fitch?
Pencils Bernard Baily (signed)
Inks Bernard Baily (signed)
Letters Bernard Baily
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-21-08.

2 page text story "A Blaze of Glory"

Genre adventure
Script Gardner F. Fox or Vincent Sullivan ? (signed as Terry Keane)
Pencils ? (spot illos)
Inks ? (spot illos)

6 page Three Aces story "The Lost Scot Gold Mine] [Part 1"

Characters Three Aces: Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill, and Whistler Will.
Genre adventure
Pencils Bert Christman (signed as Christopher)
Inks Bert Christman (signed as Christopher)

Half page From the Four Corners filler

Genre fact
Pencils Sheldon Moldoff
Inks Sheldon Moldoff

11 page Zatara Master Magician story "The Deaths on the Moor"

Characters Zatara; Tong.
Genre occult
Script Gardner F. Fox
Pencils Fred Guardineer
Inks Fred Guardineer