Dates
- Cover date
- Summer 1940
- On sale
- May 10, 1940
- Pages
- 68
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- The Slot Machine Racket · 13 pages
Lois and Clark are very concerned when they see business owners trying to induce children into their stores to play slot machines, placed there by the goons of "Slug" Kelly. When the duo are held captive by Kelly and threatened with death, Superman takes over to clean house of the machines and the mugs responsible for them.
- Super Strength: Rules for Summer Living · 0.8 pages
Superman reminds his readers to get plenty of rest, eat right, gets lots of exercise and drink plenty of milk.
- Campaign Against the Planet · 13 pages
Punk politician Alex Evell, because of his growing political power, is out to buy the Planet's competitor, so that he will have a newspaper to back up his political dealings. But Evell doesn't like Clark Kent and his scathing articles about him, so the crook sets out to buy out the Planet as well..or else!
- Power of the Press · 1.17 pages
Bill Harkness, a reporter for just two days, swelled with pride at the dedication of the new State Hospital, the top story of that time. Afterwards, he entered the building to look around, and bumped into one of the patients, the Great Gordon, the best ventriloquist of his day. Bill learned that this man had a son named Johnny, but then was interrupted by the Superintendent who wished that Harkness had never talked to the man. When he asked why, Harkness was finally told the secret of Gordon's son...he was the dummy he had used in his act!
- Luthor's Incense Menace · 13 pages
Clark Kent smells a rat when he enters several offices of financial wizards, hoping to find out why they are profiting during a time of extreme depression, and noting a sickening sweet smell of incense in the air. Superman discovers that it involves a plot by Luthor, who uses the narcotic incense to inslave the men and thus profit off their ventures.
- Murder in the Wind · 1.34 pages
People were very surprised when young Pert Blair was elected Sheriff, and more surprised, after the first murder in the county's history occurred, when Pert nailed the town's banker for the murder!
- Untitled · 1 pages
Shorty is chased home by a smaller dog...then re-emerges in a tiger skin and chases the other dog off.
- The Wonder Drug Racket · 13 pages
Superman investigates why a noted chemist's serum, parabiolene, financed by a noted gangster named Carlin, is being used on noted people, making them virtual slaves to do the bidding of Carlin.
Characters
Reprinted in
The Superman Archives (1989), Superman: The Golden Age (2016), DC Finest: Superman: The First Superhero (2024), The Superman Chronicles (2006), Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013), Superman Work Book (1945)