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Superman (1939) - #7
DC Comics

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Editor(s):
Whitney Ellsworth

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Wayne Boring
Joe Shuster

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Cover Date: Nov/Dec 1940
Cover Price: US $ 0.10

Issue Tagline: World's Greatest Adventure-Strip Character

Format: Color; Standard Comic Issue; 64 pages

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Reprinted/Collected in:
DC Archiv Edition (1998) #7
Der Neue Superman (1987) 1987-03
Superman Archives (1989) HC vol. 02
The Superman Chronicles (2006) TPB vol. 04
Superman: The Golden Age (2016) TPB vol. 02
Superman: The Golden Age Omnibus (2013) HC vol. 01

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Writer(s):
Jerome 'Jerry' Siegel

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Wayne Boring

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Wayne Boring

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Lois Lane (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)
Mike Moran
Nick Norton

Sergeant Casey

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

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Synopsis:
The district attorney, George Lash is quoted by Clark Kent to be going after gang bosses, Moran, Billings, and Norton. Later, Superman sees Lash in a drunken stupor, drugged by criminals. Investigating, he learns that Lash?s wife was murdered, and Lash is the prime suspect.

Convinced of Lash?s innocence, Superman follows the gangsters and locates a document exonerating Lash. Superman also brings in Nick Norton who he suspects is the real killer. He tricks Norton into confessing his crime to the police and framing Lash.

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First appearance of Perry White.

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Writer(s):
George Papp

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George Papp

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George Papp

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One-page filler.

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G. B. Armbruster

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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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Superman travels to Gay City where the townspeople have suddenly become brittle as glass. After saving some from deadly collisions, Superman visits Commissioner Stanley who tips him off to Gargoyle Towers, the suspected source of the malady.

The building turns out to be a trap, but Superman locates another building which seems to be emitting invisible rays from within. While Superman visits the building and finds an evil scientist, Kotzoff, Lois Lane arrives in town and is affected by the malady as well. Superman forces the scientist and his associates to turn over the antidote, which he uses to help Lois. Then he returns to look for the Commissioner.

Stanley attempts to escape by plane, but the Man of Steel brings him down. Superman is then doused with Kotzoff?s gas which knocks him out, and the police take him into custody. When he revives, Superman breaks out, captures the crooks, forcing them to confess, and spreads the antidote throughout town.

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also known as "The Shattered People". Story not originally titled; titles derive from subseuqent reprintings.

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Shorty (DC)

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

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Red Tyler
Perry White (DC)(Earth-2 - Pre Crisis)

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After a murderer is set free due to crooked prosecuting attorney, Ralph Dale, Clark Kent recommends that the Daily Planet support Bert Runyan, an honest attorney, for office to stop the corruption. Gang boss, Nat Burly, pressures Runyan to drop out of the race, using several illegal methods and assistance from crooked police officers. Superman helps Runyan avoid the tactics of his competitor, but when election day comes, a gang member stuffs the ballot box, fixing the election. The Man of Steel exposes the crime, causing Dale and Burly to be arrested. Runyan is elected after a recount.

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

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

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Black Gang

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Lois and Clark go undercover to a nightclub to get the story on a band of crooks called the Black Gang. During the evening the couple is approached by Frank Jordan and Jane Day. Jane convinces Clark to take her home in a cab. The cab is pulled over by the Black Gang, but Clark escapes.

Lois leaves with Jordan, and he kidnaps her for her jewels. When he and the Black Gang discover that she is a reporter and not a high society gal, they decide to kill her. Superman arrives in time to save Lois and catch the gang, recovering evidence to convict them including a reporter, Peter Peeker, who works for a rival newspaper and was a member of the gang.

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