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Superman In The Forties (2005) - TPB
"Superman In The Forties"
DC Comics

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Editor(s):
Robert 'Bob' Greenberger
James Winslow Mortimer - 'Win Mortimer'
Jack Schiff
Vincent A. Sullivan - 'Vin'
Mort Weisinger

Cover Artist(s):
Joe Shuster
David Tanguay

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Cover Date: 2005
Cover Price: US $19.99

Issue Tagline: 18 Early Adventures of the Man of Tomorrow!

Format: Color; Trade Paperback; 192 pages

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Reprints/Collects:
Action Comics (1938) #1
Action Comics (1938) #2
Action Comics (1938) #14
Action Comics (1938) #23
Action Comics (1938) #64
Action Comics (1938) #93
Action Comics (1938) #107
Superboy (1949) #5
Superman (1939) #1
Superman (1939) #23
Superman (1939) #40
Superman (1939) #53
Superman (1939) #58
Superman (1939) #61
World's Finest Comics (1941) #37

Notes:
All reprints no new materials.

There's also a 2 page Superman story "What If Superman Ended The War?" from Look Magazine (1943).

Foreword, "When the World Needed a Champion, Superman Showed Us What One Looked Like", by Bob Hughes

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)
Butch Mason
Senator Barrows

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

George Taylor (Earth-2)

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Superman, a man from a dying planet where civilization was far more advanced came to Earth as a baby and developed incredible powers as he matured. Now he uses these power to benefit mankind as a champion of the oppressed.

Publicly revealing himself for the first time, Superman brings confessed murderess, Bea Carroll to the Governor's mansion in time to prevent the scheduled execution of Evelyn Curry, the woman accused of the crime.

When he changes into his secret identity as Clark Kent, he reports to his newly acquired job as a reporter at the Daily Star. In the newsroom, Clark receives a tip concerning a wife-beating. Arriving as Superman, he gives the man a taste of his own medicine before turning him over to the police.

Later, Clark asks pretty reporter Lois Lane for a date. Lois reluctantly goes out with Clark, but is disgusted when he won?t stand up to some hoodlums who harass Lois. Lois leaves the club, but she is kidnapped by Butch Mason, one of her harassers. Clark dons his costume and overtakes Butch's car. He rescues Lois and leaves Butch for the police.

Clark is later assigned to cover a war in the small South American country of San Monte. Before he makes the trip, Clark travels to Washington D.C. and sees Senator Barrows speaking to lobbyist Alex Greer concerning a senate bill. Leaping around the city with Greer tucked under his arm, Superman tries to force Greer to tell him who is behind the corruption of the Senator.

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #1

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)
Emil Norvell

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

George Taylor (Earth-2)

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War is brewing in San Monte and Emil Norvell, a wealthy munitions manufacturer, is profiting from selling arms to both sides. While traveling to San Monte with Lois Lane, Superman battles Norvell's toughs. Once in San Monte, he forces Norvell to join the army and demonstrates to him firsthand the horrors of war. Meanwhile, Lois has been arrested as a spy and Superman must save her from a firing squad. Ultimately convinced that war must be averted, Norvell returns to the U.S. vowing, "The most dangerous thing I?ll manufacture is a firecracker." Then the Man of Steel brings the commanders of the warring armies face to face, where they discover they've been manipulated and have no quarrel with each other.

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #2

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"Lois Lane Loves Clark Kent" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
William Woolfolk

Penciller(s):
Wayne Boring

Inker(s):
Stan Kaye

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)
Perry White (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

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Reprinted from Superman (1939) #58

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Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

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Reprinted from Superman (1939) #1

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Writer(s):
Bill Finger

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Wayne Boring

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Stan Kaye

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John Kent (Earth-2)

Mary Kent (Earth-2)

Jor - L (Earth-2)
Lara - L (Earth-2)

Luthor (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

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Reprinted from Superman (1939) #53

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"Superman Returns to Krypton" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Bill Finger

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Al Plastino

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Al Plastino

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John Kent (Earth-2)

Mary Kent (Earth-2)

Jor - L (Earth-2)
Lara - L (Earth-2)

Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

Swami Riva (Earth-2)
Perry White (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

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Reprinted from Superman (1939) #61

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"Superboy Meets Supergirl!" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
William Woolfolk

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John Sikela

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Ed Dobrotka

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Martha 'Ma' Kent (01 - Earth-1)

Superboy (DC)(Earth-1 - Pre Crisis)(01-Clark Kent)

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Reprinted from Superboy (1949) #5

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"Superman Meets the Ultra-Humanite" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Paul H. Cassidy

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Paul H. Cassidy

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Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

George Taylor (Earth-2)

Ultra-Humanite (DC)(Gerard Shugel)

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #14

DC's errata page identifies Paul Cassidy as artist.

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Writer(s):
Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Joe Shuster

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Paul H. Cassidy

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Luthor (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

George Taylor (Earth-2)

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #23

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"The Terrible Toyman" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Donald Clough Cameron - '(Golden Age writer), C.A.M. Donne'

Penciller(s):
Ed Dobrotka

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George Roussos - 'George Bell, T.S. Chu, Sam Kato'

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

Toyman (01 - Earth-1 Winslow Schott)
Perry White (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #64

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"Journey into Ruin" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Donald Clough Cameron - '(Golden Age writer), C.A.M. Donne'

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Ira Yarbrough

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Stan Kaye
Ira Yarbrough

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

J. Wilbur Wolfingham

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #107

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"The Mxyztplk-Susie Alliance!" - Edit this story

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Donald Clough Cameron - '(Golden Age writer), C.A.M. Donne'

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Ira Yarbrough

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Stan Kaye

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Mr. Mxyztplk (01 - Earth-2)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)
Susie Tompkins (Earth-2)

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Reprinted from Superman (1939) #40

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"America's Secret Weapon!" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Donald Clough Cameron - '(Golden Age writer), C.A.M. Donne'

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Sam Citron

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Sam Citron

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

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Reprinted from Superman (1939) #23

DC's errata page identifies Sam Citron as sole artist.

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Writer(s):
Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Joe Shuster

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Jack Burnley

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Lois Joanne Lane (DC)(non-continuity)
Superman (DC)(non-continuity)

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Reprinted from the Superman newpaper comic strip, February 16-19, 1942

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"How Superman Would End the War" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Joe Shuster

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Joe Shuster

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Adolf Hitler (DC)

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Superman (DC)(non-continuity)

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Reprinted from Look Magazine, February 27, 1940

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"The Superman Story!" - Edit this story

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Writer(s):
Bill Finger

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Wayne Boring

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Stan Kaye

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)
Perry White (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

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Reprinted from World's Finest Comics (1941) #37

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Donald Clough Cameron - '(Golden Age writer), C.A.M. Donne'

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Ira Yarbrough

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Stan Kaye

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

Superman (DC)(Golden Age/Undefined Earth)

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Reprinted from Action Comics (1938) #93

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Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Joe Shuster

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Joe Shuster

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Superman (DC)(non-continuity)

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Reprinted from Fort Meade Post, August 13, 1943

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