| Issue | #C-61 |
| Published | [March] 1979 |
| Frequency | quarterly |
| Cover Price | 2.00 USD |
| Pages | 72 |
| Editing | Joe Orlando (Managing Editor); Paul Levitz; Vin Sullivan (original) |
| Notes | This issue went on sale 1978-12-12. |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | This book was also published in a Whitman edition, with the DC bullet replaced with a Whitman one, WHITMAN placed below the price, and the UPC replaced with a black and white drawing of Superman flying. |
| Script | Jenette Kahn |
| Notes | Jenette goes into the background of this book and its creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and dedicates this reprint to them. Appears on the inside front cover in this issue. |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Editing | Vin Sullivan (original editor) |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Superman; Ma (Mary) Kent (intro); Pa Kent (intro); Krypton |
| Synopsis | After the planet Krypton is blown up, a couple finds a baby in a rocket and adopt him. The young boy grows up to be Superman. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | First version that mentions Krypton and foster parents. First line: "Just before the doomed planet, Krypton, exploded to fragments, a scientist placed his infant son within an experimental rocket-ship, launching it toward Earth!" |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Clark Kent; George Taylor (intro, not named); Bea Carroll (villain) |
| Synopsis | Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Star, but is turned down until Superman stops a lynching and Clark phones in the story. Then Superman gets singer Bea Carroll to confess to the murder of Jack Kennedy. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | Redrawn sequence edited out of the story from Action #1 when it was recut from comic strip format to comic book format. Superman wears red boots. In the Millennium Edition reprint, this untitled story is given the title of "Superman -- Champion of the Oppressed!" First line: "Outer waiting-room of the Daily Star..." |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Superman; George Taylor (intro, not named); Lois Lane (intro); Daily Star; Evelyn Curry; Bea Carroll (villain); Butch Matson (villain); Senator Barrows (villain); Alex Greer (villain) |
| Synopsis | Superman delivers a witness to the governor to stop an execution, then stops a wife-beater. Later Superman, as Clark Kent goes out with Lois, but she earns the wrath of Butch Matson and Superman must save her. Finally, Clark is assigned a story on the South American republic of San Monte. He heads to Washington DC to find out who is behind Senator Barrows pushing legislation which will embroil the United States in a war in Europe by grabbing lobbyist Alex Greer and scaring the truth out of him. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Letters | Joe Shuster? |
| Notes | Continued in next story sequence. Superman wears blue boots in this story. First line: "A tireless figure races thru the night." |
| Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #1 (June 1938) [as reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939)]. |
| Characters | Superman; Alex Greer (villain); Emil Norvell (villain); Lois Lane; Lola Cortez; George Taylor (cameo) |
| Synopsis | Clark Kent and Lois Lane go to San Monte in South America to cover the war brewing. Superman proves the war is being fomented by munitions manufacturers. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | Clark apparently works for the [Cleveland] Evening News, as he sends pictures there. Superman wears blue boots. First line: "As they topple like a plummet to the street below, eighty stories distant, Greer shrieks insanely the entire length of the building!" |
| Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2 (July 1938) [as reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939)]. |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster (illo) |
| Inks | Joe Shuster (illo) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Supermen of America fan club application (initial launch). Illustration accompanying promo also used on the pinup on the back cover of the original. |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Letters | Joe Shuster? |
| Notes | Adapted (not reprinted) from page 1 in Action Comics #1. |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Clark Kent; George Taylor; Stanislaw Kober; Thornton Blakely (villain) |
| Synopsis | Clark investigates accidents in a shoddily run mine. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Letters | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | Superman appears in only one panel in this story, wearing blue boots. In the Millennium Edition reprint, this untitled story is given the title of "Cave-In at the Blakely Mine!" First line: "A creaking of timber - an ominous rumble - and then, with a terrific crash, the Blakely coal mine caves in, entrapping a lone miner within its terrible confines!" |
| Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #3 (August 1938) [as reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939)] |
| Characters | Superman; Coach Randall (villain); Tommy Burke; Mary; Wallace Dodd (cameo) |
| Synopsis | Superman impersonates a football player to straighten out a fixed game. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Letters | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | Clark works for the Evening News in this story. Superman wears blue boots. In the Millennium Edition reprint, this untitled story is given the title of "Superman -- Football Hero!" First line: "Exhilarated by the demon Speed, a drunken, irresponsible driver races faster -- faster still!" |
| Reprinted | from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #4 (September 1938) [as reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939)] |
| Characters | Superman (inset); Jerry Siegel (photo); Joe Shuster (photo) |
| Genre | Fact |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Has photos and bios of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. First line: "Boys and Girls: Meet the creators of the one and only Superman - America's Greatest Adventure Strip!" |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Superman; Biff Dugan (intro, villain); Sergeant Blake |
| Synopsis | After Superman eludes Sergeant Blake by changing to Clark Kent, Clark blackmails the detective into allowing him a jailhouse interview with Biff Dugan. When Dugan escapes, Clark switches to Superman and returns Dugan to his cell. |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | First line: "Smashed desks, overturned filing cabinets, strewn plaster, gaping holes in the walls, shining steel fixtures drooping in sad caricature of their former modernistic splendor, greeted the startled Detective Sergeant's eyes as he swung open the office door to the firm Harvey Brown, Patent Attorney." |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Notes | House ad for Action Comics #14 (July 1939). |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Joe Shuster |
| Inks | Joe Shuster |
| Notes | Illustration also used in reduced size in the Supermen of America promo in this issue. |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939). |
| Notes | Ads for new 576 page catalog of novelties from Johnson Smith & Co., with full pages of novelties available. The company's address has been blanked out in this reprint. Appears on pages 4 and 69 in this issue. |
| Reprinted | from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1 (Summer 1939) [modified]. |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez [signed] |
| Inks | Dick Giordano [signed] |
| Notes | Appears on inside back cover in this issue. |
| Characters | Superman; Metropolis [future] |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Pencils | Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez [signed] |
| Inks | Dick Giordano [signed] |
| Notes | Appears on the back cover of this issue. |
| Reprinted | in Superman Jubiläumsband (Egmont Ehapa, 1979 series) #1 [in German, as a cover]. |