| Issue | #15 |
| Published | March-April 1942 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth; [Murray Boltinoff; Mort Weisinger] |
| Notes | Cover Blub: World's Greatest Adventure-Strip Character! |
| Characters | Superman |
| Genre | superhero |
| Pencils | Fred Ray |
| Inks | Fred Ray |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Cover Blub: World's Greatest Adventure-Strip Character! The scene for this cover originally appeared in the 1st color Superman cartoon by Fleisher, titled "The Mad Scientist". |
| Reprinted | in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994) |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Sgt. Bob Branigan; Bill Talley (villain, intro) |
| Synopsis | Lois and Clark stand by and seek to assist Sgt. Branigan, who was blinded during a tussel with mobsters as well as being dismissed from the Police force for accidently killing a woman while supposedly mis-using his powers as a Police officer. To make things worse, Branigan is approached by the very mobsters he fought earlier and they are demanding protection money from him for his new business. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Inks | Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Notes | 1st time Jimmy is given a last name. The story title was taken from the Archive. |
| Reprinted | in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994) |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Secretary of the Navy Hank Fox; Hokopoko (villain, intro, death); Utsum (villain, intro, death); the Black Circle (villains, intro, deaths) |
| Synopsis | Superman discovers that Battleship Y-92 had been sabotaged by agents of the war-like nation of Napkan upon launching. He later discovers that pro-Napkan parties have been established in South American, and the enemy wishes to have more formed in Central American nations that will turn anti-American, thus allowing Napkan to openly invade the United States without opposition. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Inks | John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Notes | The Archives lists the story title as "Saboteurs From Napkan". |
| Reprinted | in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994); in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971) |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; King Boris; Prince Micheal; Razkal (villain, intro, death, based on Adolf Hitler); Lord Murgot (villain, intro, death) |
| Synopsis | Superman heads to Europe to assist the democratic nation of Numark against the war-like attacks being made on it by Oxnalia, saving Numark's young Prince as well as bringing about peace between the two nations. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Inks | John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Notes | The Archive lists the story title as "Superman in Oxnalia". |
| Reprinted | in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994) |
| Genre | fact |
| Script | Jack Liebowitz |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | Published by Detective Comics, Inc. 480 Lexington Ave, NY, NY (indicia says Superman, Inc.) Editor: W. F. Ellsworth Owners; Harry, Irwin and Sonia Donenfeld, P. H. Sampliner, P. H. Sampliner (JR) and Joan Sampliner. |
| Genre | adventure |
| Script | Norman Goss (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Characters | Chief Hot Foot |
| Genre | humor |
| Script | Henry Boltinoff |
| Pencils | Henry Boltinoff |
| Inks | Henry Boltinoff |
| Letters | Henry Boltinoff |
| Characters | Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Sgt. Casey; Phil Carter; Tim (a newspaper boy); The Evolution King (villain, intro, death); Tony Rico (villain); Joe Glower (villain) |
| Synopsis | Superman must battle the Evolution King, a man who has developed a way to advance or revert the ages of prominent athletes, forcing them to pay him blackmail, else he keeps them in an old and decrepit condition. |
| Genre | superhero |
| Script | Jerry Siegel (signed) |
| Pencils | Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Inks | John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed) |
| Reprinted | in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994) |