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Publisher: DC

Title: Superman
Issue: [1]
Page Count: 68
Publish Date: [Summer 1939]
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Superman #1
Owner: RedFury

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Story Title: [ no title ] - cover
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Reprinted:in Superman: The Complete History (Chronicle Books, 1998 series) [1/3 page]


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: Two Page Origin of Superman - comic story
Pages:2
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:A rocketship, carrying an infant, rockets from the planet Krypton as it blows up, and lands on the Earth where a couple named the Kents find the baby inside the rocket and eventually adopt him. This infant boy grows up to be Superman.


Story Title: Clark Kent Gets a Job - comic story
Pages:4
Genre:superhero
Characters:Sims
Synopsis:Clark Kent applies for a job at the Daily Star, but is turned down until Superman stops a lynching and Clark phones in the story. Then Superman gets singer Bea Carroll to confess to the murder of Jack Kennedy.


Story Title: The Coming of Superman - comic story
Pages:11.67
Genre:superhero
Characters:un-named Governor; Governor's un-named servant
Synopsis:Superman breaks into the Governor's mansion to stop the execution of Evelyn Curry, and Lois is kidnapped by gangsters, no thanks to that spineless milksop, Clark Kent, but is rescued by Superman! In his next assignment, Superman tackles a corrupt Senator in Washington.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.33
Genre:superhero


Story Title: Revolution in San Monte - comic story
Pages:12.67
Genre:superhero
Characters:Lola Cortez; Emil Norvell (villain)
Synopsis:Clark Kent and Lois Lane board the steamship Baronta, bound for San Monte in South America to cover the war brewing. He and Norvell join the San Monte Army so that the Man of Tomorrow can prove the war is being fomented by munitions manufacturers.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.33
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:House advertisement asking readers who would like to see the Superman newspaper strip in their local paper to fill out the coupon and mail it to the publisher "and we will try to get your paper to run it as a daily strip."


Story Title: Superman & Action Comics Invite You to Become a Charter Member of the Supermen of America - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:Supermen of America fan club application (initial launch).


Story Title: Scientific Explanation of Superman's Amazing Strength--! - comic story
Pages:1
Genre:science fiction
Synopsis:Superman's strength is attributed to the lighter gravity found on Earth, and is compared to the ant and the grasshopper, both insects whose strength and jumping ability, by comparsion, would be considered super strength.
Reprinted:in Superman: The Complete History (Chronicle Books, 1998 series) [1/2 page]


Story Title: The Blakely Mine Disaster - comic story
Pages:12.67
Genre:superhero
Characters:Elsa Maxwell; George; Stanislaw Kober; Thornton Blakely (villain)
Synopsis:Clark asks editor Taylor for the assignment at a cave-in the Blakely Mine, a mine notorious for its unsafe working conditions. However, when he disguises himself as a miner, he is caught and taken to Blakely, who is entertaining guests at a party. Blakely decides to move the party into the mine, showing to all present that conditions and fail safe measures are more than adequate for the worker's safety.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:0.33


Story Title: Superman Plays Football - comic story
Pages:12.75
Genre:superhero
Characters:Tommy Burke; Mary; Wallace Dodd (cameo); Coach Randall (villain); Oliver Stanley; Ray Martin; Mike
Synopsis:Learning that the football coach of Dale University, who is desperately trying to save his job, has hired professional thugs to play against Cordell University, Superman kidnaps Cordell's bench warmer-player, Tommy Burke, and takes his place in the big game, foiling the plot and allowing Cordell to win the game.


Story Title: Acquiring Super-Strength - activity
Pages:0.25
Genre:non-fiction
Synopsis:This sequence provides advice on how to improve your strength.


Story Title: [ no title ] - text article
Pages:1
Pencils:? (photographs)
Inks:? (photographs)
Colors:? (photographs)
Letters:typeset
Genre:non-fiction; biography
Characters:Jerry Siegel (photograph of); Joe Shuster (photograph of)
Synopsis:Features photos and biographies of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the creators of Superman.


Story Title: Biff Dugan - text story
Pages:2
Letters:typeset
Genre:superhero
Characters:Sergeant Blake; Harvey Brown; Biff Dugan (villain, introduction); Mooney
Synopsis:After Superman eludes Sergeant Blake by changing to Clark Kent, Clark blackmails the detective into allowing him a jailhouse interview with Biff Dugan. When Dugan escapes, Clark switches to Superman and returns Dugan to his cell.


Story Title: [ no title ] - promo (ad from the publisher)
Pages:1
Letters:typeset
Genre:fantasy; superhero
Synopsis:Promotional house advertisement for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #14, for July of 1939, on sale July 2, 1939 (see notes).


Story Title: [ no title ] - advertisement
Pages:1
Letters:typeset


Story Title: [ no title ] - illustration
Pages:1
Genre:superhero
Synopsis:Superman is breaking out of chains across his chest.


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