- Script
- Robert Greenberger (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
An overview of the context of this issue and the characters, stories, and credits, and the difficulties that Siegel and Shuster had in marketing Superman. Appears on inside front and inside back cover.
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Shuster (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Shuster
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman (intro, brief origin)
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Krypton (not named)
This strip was originally prepared for newspaper publication, cut up and repaged. Black shading used.
- Script
- Jerry Siegel (credited)
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster (credited)
- Inks
- Joe Shuster (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Joe Shuster ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; George Taylor (intro, not named); Lois Lane (intro); Evelyn Curry; Bea Carroll (villain); Butch Matson (villain); Senator Barrows (villain); Alex Greer (villain)
- Synopsis
- Superman delivers a witness to the governor to stop an execution, then stops a wife-beater. Later Superman, as Clark Kent goes out with Lois, but she earns the wrath of Butch Matson and Superman must save her. Finally, Clark is assigned a story on the South American republic of San Monte. He heads to Washington DC to find out who is behind Senator Barrows pushing legislation which will embroil the United States in a war in Europe by grabbing lobbyist Alex Greer and scaring the truth out of him.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- Daily Star
Story continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2. Originally prepared for newspaper publication, cut up and repaged by Joe Shuster, not Harry Lampert as often claimed. Black shading used. Superman wears blue boots.
- Script
- Homer Fleming (credited)
- Pencils
- Homer Fleming (credited)
- Inks
- Homer Fleming (credited)
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; western-frontier
- Characters
- Charles "Chuck" Dawson (intro); Uncle Dan; Notch Logan; John Burwell; Trigger Holt; Butch; Blacky (Chuck's horse)
- Reprints
Black and white. Story continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.
- Script
- Fred Guardineer (credited)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fred Guardineer ?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; fantasy-supernatural; superhero
- Characters
- Zatara (intro); Tong (intro); Detective Brady (dies); Detective Brown; Captain Kennedy; Train Inspector Babcock; Monk; the Tigress (villain)
- Reprints
- Script
- Vin Sullivan ?
- Pencils
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Inks
- ? (spot illustrations)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Bret Coleman; Cottonball; Samuel Newton; Aruba (boat)
- Reprints
Sequence carries the byline "by Captain Frank Thomas." Issue credits (on inside back cover) says "Story & Art by Unknown." Story continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.
- Script
- Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
- Pencils
- Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
- Inks
- Russell Cole (credited as Alger)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Russell Cole ?
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Sticky-Mitt Stimson
- Reprints
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén)
- Inks
- Sven Elven (credited as Sven Elvén)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Sven Elven
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- historical; adventure
- Characters
- Marco Polo; Signor Polo; Niku
- Reprints
Story continues in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #2.
- Script
- Gardner Fox; Fred Guardineer (credited)
- Pencils
- Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)
- Inks
- Fred Guardineer (credited, signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fred Guardineer ?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Pep Morgan; Sailor Sorenson; Pop Burkett; Doc Lowry; Boomerang; O'Rourke
- Reprints
- Keywords
- boxing
- Script
- Bill Ely (signed as ); ?
- Pencils
- Bill Ely (signed as )
- Inks
- Bill Ely (signed as )
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Scoop Scanlon; Rusty; Arnold
- Reprints
Black and white.
- Script
- Ken Fitch ?; Bernard Baily (credited)
- Pencils
- Bernard Baily (credited) (signed as )
- Inks
- Bernard Baily (credited) (signed as )
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Bernard Baily
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- adventure; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Tex Thomson (intro, later Mr. America [in #33], later Americommando [in #54]); Bobby; Sonja; Monk; Betty; Sergeant Smith
- Reprints
- Keywords
- England
- Script
- ? [as the Star-Gazer]
- Pencils
- ? [as the Star-Gazer]
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Genre
- non-fiction; biography
- Synopsis
- Facts about Fred Astaire; Constance Bennett; Charles Boyer; and Wheeler and Woolsey.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- celebrity
Per Craig Delich, art MIGHT be by Sheldon Moldoff.