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Issue Details

Issue #20
Published January-February 1943
Cover Price 0.10
Pages 68
Editing [Whitney Ellsworth, Jack Schiff]
Notes Supermen of America page lists DC staffers who have recently entered the military: Mort Weisinger, Murray Boltinoff, Ed Kenney (art Dept),Jack Lehti, George Papp, Bernie Klein, Fred Ray, and Lee Harris. Story title by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).

Cover Details

Characters Superman
Genre superhero
Pencils Jack Burnley
Inks Jack Burnley
Notes Supermen of America page lists DC staffers who have recently entered the military: Mort Weisinger, Murray Boltinoff, Ed Kenney (art Dept),Jack Lehti, George Papp, Bernie Klein, Fred Ray, and Lee Harris. Story title by Craig Delich (Feb. 2006).
Reprinted in Superman From the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983 series) #nn; in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

13 page Superman story "Superman's Secret Revealed"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Ironjaw Grogan (villain; introduction), Lois Lane; Perry White; Luthor (cameo; villain); Puzzler (cameo; villain); Prankster (cameo; villain); Adonis (cameo; villain); Ultra (cameo; villain); Bruce Wayne (cameo); Dick Grayson (cameo)
Synopsis A practical joke by Lois exposes Clark's secret identity, forcing Clark Kent to "masquerade" as Superman.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel [as Siegel] (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka [as Shuster] (signed)
Inks John Sikela [as Shuster] (signed)
Notes Newspaper text on splash mentions Ed Dobrotka, Wayne Boring, Whitney Ellsworth, Harry Donenfeld, & Jack Liebowitz. Superman has a yellow "S" on his cape.
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

13 page Superman story "Destroyers From the Depths"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Tom; Adolf Hitler (villain); Herr Fange (villain; introduction; dies)
Synopsis A German inventor creates an army of Nazi controlled sea serpents that Hitler plans on using against Allied convoys.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Ed Dobrotka (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

13 page Superman story "Lair of the Leopard"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Cal Johnson; Herman the Heroic [Herman Hoskins](introduction); The Leopard [Sam Kennedy](villain; introduction)
Synopsis Superman has to deal with an ardent admirer who costumes himself and wants to help the Man of Tomorrow on his dangerous case against the Leopard.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Inks John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5 (2000)

2 page Chesty McGurk filler "untitled"

Characters Chesty McGurk
Genre gag
Notes This filler is NOT found in the Archive.

2 page text story "The Prof Comes Through"

Genre adventure
Script Eric Carter (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes This text story is NOT found in the Archive.

13 page Superman story "Not In the Cards"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Harlow Gates (dies); Jim Cameron; Peter Fellows; Philip Brandon; Jake Clymer; Morton Thornton; The Puzzler (villain)
Synopsis The Puzzler, defeated in various card championships, vows to escape from prison and kill every one of the winners.
Genre superhero
Script Jerry Siegel (signed)
Pencils Joe Shuster (signed)
Inks John Sikela (signed as Joe Shuster)
Reprinted in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #5