| Issue | #19 |
| Published | November-December 1942 |
| Cover Price | 0.10 |
| Pages | 68 |
| Editing | Whitney Ellsworth; [Murray Boltinoff; Mort Weisinger] |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| Genre | gag |
| Pencils | Stan Aschmeier |
| Inks | Stan Aschmeier |
| Notes | This filler is NOT found in the Archive. |
| Genre | sports |
| Script | Eddie Duane (signed) |
| Letters | typeset |
| Notes | This text story is NOT in the Archive. |
| 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) |