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Issue Details

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!

Cover Details

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)

13 page Superman story "The Cop Who Was Ruined"

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)

13 page Superman story "The Napkanese Saboteurs"

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)

13 page Superman story "The Oxnalian Revolution"

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)

Half page Statement of Ownership text article

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.

2 page text story "Rattlebrain"

Genre adventure
Script Norman Goss (signed)
Letters typeset

2 page Chief Hot Foot filler

Characters Chief Hot Foot
Genre humor
Script Henry Boltinoff
Pencils Henry Boltinoff
Inks Henry Boltinoff
Letters Henry Boltinoff

13 page Superman story "The Evolution King"

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)