| Issue | #26 |
| Published | July 1940 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth, Murray Boltinoff |
| Notes | 1st issue labeled "World's Largest Selling Comic Magazine. Yellow "S" on blue shield on cape. |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Wayne Boring |
| Inks | Wayne Boring |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | 1st issue labeled "World's Largest Selling Comic Magazine. Yellow "S" on blue shield on cape. |
| Reprinted | In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #2 (1998). |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; George Taylor (unnamed); Villains: Professor Clarence Cobalt, Grafton; Tommy; Little Mary; Dr. Wortington. |
| Synopsis | Professor Cobalt, proprietor of the Cobalt Clinic, has his advertisement turned down by the Daily Planet because it makes spurious claims. Clark runs him out after Cobalt gets aggressive with George Taylor. George gets Clark and Lois to investigate the clinic for an exposé. |
| Genre | Super-hero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Don Komisarow (pages 1-5); Paul Cassidy (pages 6-13) |
| Inks | Shuster Shop |
| Notes | Includes a one-panel plea after the end of the story for contributions to President Roosevelt's Infantile Paralysis Fund. Pencilling credit for Pages 1-5 up-dated from Wayne Boring to Don Komisarow per Bob Hughes 8-23-08. |
| Reprinted | In Superman: The Action Comics Archives (DC, 1997 series) #2 (1998). |
| Characters | Pep Morgan; Pierre. |
| Synopsis | On a hunting expedition to Saskatchewan, Canada, Pep and his friend Pierre are snowed in and must traverse hundreds of miles to get to the next outpost before another storm. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter) |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer (signed as Gene Baxter) |
| Characters | The Black Pirate [Jon Valor]; Captain Courtney; Jeanne; V: Captain Ruff's brother. |
| Synopsis | The Black Pirate is trapped in a shark-infested sea. After fighting them off, he is picked up by another ship, run by Captain Courtney. When they dock at Savannah, Jon Valor leaves town on horseback. He meets up with a childhood friend, Jeanne, at an inn. That night, a bearded intruder comes to the inn and demands the Black Pirate. |
| Genre | period |
| Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Characters | Three Aces: Fog Fortune, Gunner Bill & Whistler Will; Ingrid Svensen; New Guinea natives |
| Synopsis | Looking for adventure in California, Gunner encounters a crying girl, Ingrid Svensen, in a diner. She needs an flight to New Guinea to retrieve pearls from on top of Devil Mountain, pearls that her father left to her in his will. Once there, the Three Aces have to figure out how to help Ingrid get the pearls. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Chad Grothkopf |
| Inks | Chad Grothkopf |
| Notes | Writer credit added by Craig Delich 8-23-08. |
| Characters | Tex Thomson; Bob Daley; Miss X (I); Special Prosecutor Maloney; V: J. Vander Wallace; Lefty. |
| Synopsis | Since Gargantua T. Potts joined the French Army, Tex and Bob find things pretty dull, but a phone call threatening death if they mix in with the new prosecutor, Maloney, gets them set on a new investigation. Maloney deputizes them to help sniff out rackets. Working on the case, they are helped by the mysterious Miss X. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Ken Fitch |
| Pencils | Bernard Baily (signed) |
| Inks | Bernard Baily (signed) |
| Letters | Bernard Baily |
| Notes | Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 8-23-08. |
| Characters | Subaltern Jones |
| Genre | war |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox (signed) |
| Pencils | ? (spot illustration) |
| Inks | ? (spot illustration) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Clip Carson; Marion Trent; James Trent; Villains: Jacques Frontenac, the "devil wolf". |
| Synopsis | Clip runs into Marion Trent in New York City and ends up helping her get to her father's cabin in the Hudson Bay area. Her father found a lode, and Jacques Frontenac and his spies are after the location. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Pencils | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Inks | Sheldon Moldoff |
| Characters | Zatara; Tong; Annette Devere; Francois Devere; Henri Jardine (flashback); V: Tony. |
| Synopsis | Zatara and Tong are in the far north searching for the Jagtooth Gold Mine he has been commissioned to find. At a cabin beset by the plague, Zatara gives the inhabitants medicine and asks them about the mine. They say that the mine is guarded by a vicious man, Tony, whom Zatara will have to defeat to return the mine to his friend, Henri Jardine. |
| Genre | Occult |
| Script | Gardner F. Fox |
| Pencils | Fred Guardineer |
| Inks | Fred Guardineer |