Dates
- Cover date
- July 1944
- On sale
- May 16, 1944
- Pages
- 60
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Courtship of Adelbert Dribble! · 12 pages
Adelbert Dribble traps Superman in order to pose as him and win the affections of his one and true love...but he gets more than he bargained for!
- Wheels of Jeopardy! · 11 pages
Jerry Goshen is an ace motorcycle racer. He and The Vigilante compete in a race, and Goshen is knocked off his cycle. Goshen goes to a loan shark, Fonzi, to borrow a grand, but is refused, and becomes a thief to pay for his son's leg operation. He later brings the gang to justice and returns to the straight and narrow.
- Carnage at the Carnival · 4 pages
- Poacher's Paradise! · 6 pages
Bill is in the South Pacific, charting islands for the government. He subsequently captures a group of pearl poachers who have their own floating, motor-powered island.
- Sugarpuss · 1 pages
- Flight into Freedom! · 7.67 pages
In Tokyo harbor Americommando sabotages a Japanese warship. In his disguise as Nazi officer Dr. Brand, he receives a visit from Dr. Ito. Brand is invited to join Ito in a bombing run to America, tied to one of the bombs! He escapes his bonds, drops the bombs harmlessly in the ocean and flies on the the west coast of America.
- Trouble Waters · 2 pages
- The Lions' Den! · 8 pages
Speaking with Harker, director of the city's new zoo, he learns that six criminals have committed suicide by jumping into the lion's enclosure. At that very moment, Boss Bannon eludes the policemen giving chase by doing just that. He runs up to the lions and seconds later only his jacket is visible. Zatara goes into the pit and finds a trapdoor cut into the rock leading down to a chamber where the apparent suicides are gathered. The scheme of Harker is exposed, and all are carted off to jail.
Reprinted in
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1997), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)