| Issue | #16 |
| Published | September 1939 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Vincent Sullivan |
| Characters | A foreign legionnaire. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer (signed as Guardineer) |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer (signed as Guardineer) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Reprinted | In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1. |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; George Taylor (unnamed); Police Commissioner Watson; Villians: Marty Kaye, Butch, Nick, Pete. |
| Synopsis | After a run-in with a gambler who is opting out for suicide, and a Police Commissioner who won't deal with the city's gambling problem, Superman decides to wage a one-man war himself against gambling and aid the victims of it. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster (signed) |
| Inks | Paul Cassidy? |
| Notes | Superman #2 on sale. The last panel of the story is an illustrated plug for New York World's Fair Comics for 1939. Note and synopsis added by Craig Delich 8-10-08. |
| Reprinted | In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #1. |
| Genre | fact |
| Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Characters | Pep Morgan |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter) |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter) |
| Notes | Continued in next issue. Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-10-08. |
| Characters | Marco Polo |
| Genre | period |
| Pencils | Sven Elven |
| Inks | Sven Elven |
| Letters | Sven Elven |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-10-08. |
| Characters | Clip Carson |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Bill Finger |
| Pencils | Bob Kane |
| Inks | Bob Kane |
| Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-10-08. |
| Characters | Tex Thomson; Gargantua T. Potts. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Ken Fitch? |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily (signed) |
| Inks | Bernard Baily (signed) |
| Letters | Bernard Baily |
| Notes | Gargantua T. Potts becomes Tex's valet. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-10-08. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Toni Blum ? (signed as Jack Anthony) |
| Pencils | ? (spot illos) |
| Inks | ? (spot illos) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Chuck Dawson |
| Genre | adventure |
| Pencils | Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming) |
| Inks | Homer Fleming (signed as H. Fleming) |
| Characters | Zatara; Tong; Gorla; Poora; Ool |
| Synopsis | Invaders from Saturn want to take over Earth. |
| Genre | occult |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer |
| Notes | First story in which Zatara speaks backwards to invoke his magic. |
| Genre | fact |
| Script | George Papp |
| Pencils | George Papp |
| Inks | George Papp |
| Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-10-08. |