Superman #15

(March-April 1942)

[The Cop Who Was Ruined] (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils:

Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Inks:

Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

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.

Reprinted:

• in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994)

Indexer Notes

1st time Jimmy is given a last name. The story title was taken from the Archive.

[The Napkanese Saboteurs] (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils:

Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Inks:

John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

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.

Reprinted:

• in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994)
• in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, Inc., 1971 series) #nn (1971)

Indexer Notes

The Archives lists the story title as "Saboteurs From Napkan".

[The Oxnalian Revolution] (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils:

John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Inks:

John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

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.

Reprinted:

• in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994)

Indexer Notes

The Archive lists the story title as "Superman in Oxnalia".

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Statement of Ownership / text article / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jack Liebowitz

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

fact

Indexer 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.

Rattlebrain (Table of Contents)

text story / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Norman Goss (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

typeset

Content Information

Genre:

adventure

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Chief Hot Foot / filler / 2 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Henry Boltinoff

Pencils:

Henry Boltinoff

Inks:

Henry Boltinoff

Colors:

?

Letters:

Henry Boltinoff

Content Information

Genre:

humor

Characters:

Chief Hot Foot

The Evolution King (Table of Contents)

Superman / comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils:

Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Inks:

John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (signed)

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

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.

Reprinted:

• in Superman Archives (DC, 1989 series) #4 (1994)