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Issue Details

Issue #19
Published November-December 1942
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing Whitney Ellsworth; [Murray Boltinoff; Mort Weisinger]

Cover Details - "untitled"

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Letters typeset
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

13 page Superman story "Case of the Funny Paper Crimes"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Sgt. Casey; Funnyface (intro; villain); Torgo (villain); Machine-Gun Mike (villain); the Black Raider (villain); Goola (villain); Viper (villain); Detective Craig (intro); Prince Peril (intro); Solitary Rider (intro); Streak Duga (intro); Happy Daze (intro) (comic strip villains/heroes)
Synopsis Superman must battle a new villain who has invented a machine that can materialize two-dimensional figures out of the comics to rob for him.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel
Pencils Ed Dobrotka
Inks John Sikela
Notes Funny Face is a dead ringer for Jerry Siegel.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #183 (January 1966); in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn (1983); in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

13 page Superman story "Superman's Amazing Adventure"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Skeet Monahan (intro; villain)
Synopsis Lois and Clark are marked for death by a gang of protection racketeers for writing stinging newspaper articles asking the Police to put a stop to it and by identifying the leader of the gang.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Most of the story is a dream. Superman has a yellow "S" on his cape. The title for this story comes from the Archives edition as the story is untitled.
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

13 page Superman story "The Canine and the Crooks"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Mr. Z [Oscar Lanchester] (intro; villain)
Synopsis When Clark and later Superman investigate as to why a Mr. Z is out to kill a dog, they discover that the man's aunt had left a fortune to that dog, and only when the animal died would the man get the inheritance!
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Superman has a red "S" on his cape, except when it's yellow. The story title is taken from the Archives edition as the story is untitled.
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

2 page Just Like Junior filler "untitled"

Genre gag
Pencils Stan Aschmeier
Inks Stan Aschmeier
Notes This filler is NOT found in the Archive.

2 page text story "Grandstand Coach"

Genre sports
Script Eddie Duane (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes This text story is NOT in the Archive.

13 page Superman story "Superman, Matinee Idol"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; animated Superman; animated Lois Lane; animated Mad Scientist (villain)
Synopsis Clark and Lois decide to go to the movies, but when Clark discovers that it's the the latest Fleisher Superman cartoon, he has to think fast to keep Lois from discovering that he is Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel [as Jerome Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Joe Shuster (pencil layouts) (signed); Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (finished pencils) (signed)
Inks John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes The Archives do not credit Shuster's pencil layouts.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #183 (January 1966) [retitled there as "Superman, Cartoon Hero!"]; in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971); in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn (1983); in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)