Dates
- Cover date
- March 1945
- On sale
- January 15, 1945
- Pages
- 52
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Water Sprite! · 12 pages
Superman investigates the allegations of a young woman about the existence of a "water sprite", all a hoax to keep the authorities from discovering cheap materials that had been used in building a dam.
- Mind Over Matter! · 5 pages
- Room, Board -- and Bullets! · 5.67 pages
While out west, Bill discovers an illegal diamond mine on the US/Mexico border. He captures the gang operating the mine and turns them over to Mexican authorities.
- A Win for Packy · 2 pages
- Magnet for Mobsters! · 10 pages
A sample of a new magnetic alloy is worth up to a million dollars to rival steel producers Hoglett and Baker. Vigilante and Stuff pursue the sample on its long journey to the smelter, eventually retuning it to the honest Baker, who donates fifty thousand dollars to charity.
- Facts and Fables! · 8 pages
Obsessed with stories of fantasy, Jimmy Timms goes to bed with his mind racing about the outcome of some stories he was reading. In his dreams a winged Zatara takes him on a magical tour of various story locales. He and Jimmy assist Jan to plug the dyke in Holland, Jack's beanstalk to grow and the defeat of the giant, Red Riding Hood to overcome the wolf, and the Pied Piper to lure the rats from Hamelin.
Reprinted in
Superman: The Action Comics Archives (1997), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013)