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Issue Details

Issue #25
Published November-December 1943
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 60
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited); Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes Corrected total page count (60 pages) from Ed Bird (November 24, 2003). Originally listed as 68 pages.

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Letters Jack Burnley?
Notes Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-1-16.
Reprinted in 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1973 series) #DC-18 (July 1973); in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

12 page Superman story "The Man Superman Refused To Help!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Murphy; Major Jonathan Ramsey (introduction); Hans Henkel (villain, introduction), 101% Americanism Society (villains, introduction)
Synopsis Superman helps to clear a World War I veteran who is accused of being the secret head of a subversive Fifth Column organization.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos? [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Writer confirmed by Martin O'Hearn; inker identification by Bob Hughes (December, 2004).
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

12 page Superman story "I Sustain the Wings!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Larry Thomas; Mary
Synopsis In response to a rival newspaper article claiming that the Training Aviation Cadets program at Yale University, whose purpose is to train new officers, is much too soft and lenient, Clark offers to join as a Cadet and get first hand information for the Planet.
Genre superhero
Script Mort Weisinger
Pencils Fred Ray
Inks Fred Ray
Notes Story prepared by Weisinger and Ray while in the service, so really it's a very long public service ad. The splash page at the bottom reads "Prepared in cooperation with the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, Major General Walter R. Weaver, Commanding General".
Reprinted in 100-Page Super Spectacular (DC, 1973 series) #DC-18 (July 1973); in America at War: The Best of DC War Comics (Simon and Schuster, 1979 series) #[nn] (October 1979); in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

1 page Private Pete filler "Sgt. For A Day"

Characters Private Pete
Genre humor; military
Script Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Pencils Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Inks Henry Boltinoff (signed)
Letters Henry Boltinoff
Notes This filler does NOT appear in the Archive.

12 page Superman story "King of the Comic Books!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Geezer (a comic strip character, introduction); Henry Jones [as Carson Steele](Geezer's creator, introduction); Mr. Frederick; Nazi spies (villains); Adolf Hitler (villain); Hermann Göring (villain, cameo); Joseph Goebbels (villain, cameo); Superman's Mountain Retreat
Synopsis Superman takes on the persona of a fictional super hero in order to save the life of the character's creator from the Nazis, who are out to kill the man because he is making a laughing stock of the Führer!
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Joe Shuster (signed)
Inks Ira Yarbrough [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Writer identification by Martin O'Hearn.
Reprinted in Superman (DC, 1939 series) #284 (February 1975); in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)

2 page text story "Fair Exchange"

Script Robert Lane (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes This text story is NOT found in the Archive.

1 page Facts About the Service filler "How They Knock Out a Jap Machine Gun Nest"

Genre fact; propaganda
Script Jack Lehti [as Sgt. Jack Lehti] (signed)
Pencils Jack Lehti [as Sgt. Jack Lehti] (signed)
Inks Jack Lehti [as Sgt. Jack Lehti] (signed)
Notes This filler is NOT found in the Archive.

1 page Quick Quiz activity

Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr
Letters Jack Farr
Notes Riddles. This filler NOT found in the Archive. Letterer credit added by Craig Delich 2010-1-16.

12 page Superman story "Hi-Jack -- Jackal of Crime!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Jack Height; Hi-Jack [Jack Jackson, not the COMANCHE MOON artist!] (villain, introduction); Daily Planet Globe (with ring and name--1st in a comic book?)
Synopsis Upset by the arrest of the Puzzler and the Prankster, a new criminal appears on the scene anxious to pay off his stock losses. How? By adopting the guise of "Hi-Jack", a criminal who will hi-jack money from people, all with the help of the Man of Tomorrow!
Genre superhero
Script Bill Finger? [as Jerry Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Inks George Roussos [as Joe Shuster] (signed)
Notes Corrected page count (12 pages) from Ed Bird (November 24, 2003). Originally listed as 9 pages. Writer and inker identification by Bob Hughes (December, 2004).
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #7 (June 2006)