| Characters |
Superman [Clark Kent]; George Taylor; Professor Martinson (death); Luthor (villain, with red hair, 2nd appearance) |
| Synopsis |
When Clark Kent begins to investigate a new weapon being tested by the Army that artifically causes earthquakes, little does he know that Lex Luthor is hot on the trail of securing the plans for that invention, one way or the other. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils |
Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Inks |
Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Notes |
DAILY STAR becomes the DAILY PLANET. One panel ad for the Spectre series in More Fun Comics at the end of the story, with art by Bernard Baily. |
| Reprinted |
in Superman From the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1987 series) #nn; in Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told, The (DC, 1989 series) #nn; in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1 |
| Characters |
Superman [Clark Kent]; George Taylor (cameo); Lois Lane; Luthor (villain, with red hair) |
| Synopsis |
Superman faces off once again with the evil Luthor, who first has tapped oil from oil wells all over the world for his purposes, then inundating the western coast of the U.S. when he raises a glass-enclosed city of ancient weird design from the murky depths. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils |
Joe Shuster (signed) |
| Inks |
Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Colors |
? |
| Notes |
One panel promo for the Sandman, appearing in Adventure Comics, is found at end of the story, with art by Creig Flessel. |
| Reprinted |
in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1 |
| Characters |
George Rankin (death); the Crime King [Spurnelli](villain, death); the President of the U.S. [unnamed] |
| Synopsis |
George Rankin had invented a serum that speeded up his time rate, he living 31,536,000 times faster than the rest of the world: what to everyone was a mere second was actually a year to him! But the effects of the formula would only last one year, and Rankin had something important to accomplish before that year was up. |
| Genre |
crime |
| Script |
Hugh Langley (signed) |
| Pencils |
Fred Guardineer |
| Inks |
Fred Guardineer |
| Letters |
typeset |
| Notes |
Information and art credits by Craig Delich (January, 2006). |
| Reprinted |
in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1 |
| Characters |
Superman [Clark Kent]; George Taylor; Paul Dorgan (cameo, death); Barney Calhoun (intro, death); J. F. Curtis (villain, intro, death, killed by Superman); Louie (villain, death) |
| Synopsis |
The suicide of the author of a manuscript, which states that sinister forces seek to retard this nation's return to prosperity, prods Superman to dart from place to place, averting the disasters that have been planned by these forces to disrupt vital aspects of national industries. |
| Genre |
superhero |
| Script |
Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils |
Joe Shuster (signed) |
| Inks |
Paul Cassidy [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Notes |
One panel ad for Batman appearing in Detective Comics appears at the end of the story, with art by Bob Kane. |
| Reprinted |
in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1 |
| Characters |
Ed Barnett (one-armed football player); Mrs. D. Beach |
| Synopsis |
Some of the facts covered in this filler include: 1) a Santa Barbara grapevine, the largest in the world, which yields ten tons of grapes per year; 2) the common slug has 30,000 teeth; 3) a Mrs. Beach walked from New York to Chicago in 42 1/2 days back in 1912; 4) the "popeyed chameleon" is capable of looking in different directions at the same time; and 5) in 1930, one-armed football player Ed Barnett caught four forward passes and intercepted three others in a game. |
| Genre |
Fact |
| Script |
George Papp [as Geo. Papp] (signed) |
| Pencils |
George Papp [as Geo. Papp] (signed) |
| Inks |
George Papp [as Geo. Papp] (signed) |
| Notes |
Some information added by Craig Delich (January, 2006). |
| Reprinted |
in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1 |
| Characters |
James Rolland (death); Professor Greystroke (scientist-inventor); Bixby (press agent) |
| Synopsis |
Actor James Rolland, upon leaving Mammoth Studios, is approached by an inventor, who tells him (and an assembled audience) that he owes everything to the actor for his invention of a giant crystal-like globe he calls the space-folder! He furthers states that Rolland will be the first person to use that invention to travel to a distant spot in the universe. Rolland steps into the globe and disappears in a puff of smoke, but, unfortunately, re-appears in the center of the sun....and perishes! As a footnote, in the future of 1982, in the Museum of Interstellar History, Rolland is honored for paving the way for interplanetary space travel. |
| Genre |
sci-fi |
| Script |
Bert Lexington (signed) |
| Letters |
typeset |
| Reprinted |
in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #1 |