Comic Title: Action Comics #237
Publisher: DC (National Comics Publications, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1958
Approx. On Sale Date: December 31, 1957 Copyright Date December 29, 1957
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1958
Until 1958 DC did not report actual on sale dates to the copyright office
The publication dates listed in LoC records are NOT release dates.

Frequency: Monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 32
Editor: Mort Weisinger

Title: "Superman's Exposed Identity"
Pages: 12

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-1)

Writer: Alvin Schwartz
Penciller: Wayne Boring
Inker: Stan Kaye

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #119; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #119; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1)
• Perry White (last appearance in Superman #119; next appearance in Superman's Girl Friend, Lois Lane #1)

Other Character(s)

• Henry Furst and Royce (a newspaper publisher and a statistical expert; no further appearances)
• Furst’s personal physician and several citizens of Metropolis (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
A newspaper publisher, Henry Furst, seeks to learn the secret identity of Superman. He talks with numerous people around Metropolis and gathers circumstanial evidence that Clark Kent is the man he is looking for. Furst fakes his death and calls Clark to his bedside. Clark reveals his identity to the dying man, but learns the next day that Furst will recover.

Clark then reveals his identity to Lois and Perry, so that the Daily Planet will break the story before Furst’s paper. When he returns to meet Furst again, he learns that Furst was confused by the medicine he took to fake death and does not believe Clark is Superman. Clark hurries back to the Planet where Lois and Perry admit to be unconvinced by Clark’s earlier confession. Although he has exposed his identity, no one believes him, saving his secret.