Comic Title: Superman #1
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Cover Date: 1939
On Sale Date: May 18, 1939 Newsstand Date May 18, 1939
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #13, Page 32

Newsstand Date May 18, 1939
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #14, Page 13

Copyright Date May 18, 1939
Source: Library of Congress, Pamphlets 1939

Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Vincent A. Sullivan

Notes:
Issue is not numbered

Title: (No Title)
Pages: 2

Feature(s):
Superman (of Earth-2)

Writer: Jerry Siegel

Reprinted In:
Famous First Edition C-61 (1979)
Famous First Edition C-61 [Whitman Exclusive] (1979)
Superman Archives Vol. 1 HC (1989)
Millennium Edition:Superman 1 (#51) (2000)
Superman in the Forties TPB (2005)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2013)
Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)
Superman (Facsimile Edition) #1 (2022)
Superman (Facsimile Edition) #1 [MB Artist Exclusive] (2022)
Superman (Facsimile Edition) #1 [MB Artist Exclusive] (2022)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #13; next appearance in Action Comics #14)

Villain(s)

• Biff Dugan (a murderer; no further appearances)
• Harvey Brown (a patent attorney; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Detective Blake (no further appearances)
• Several police officers (Mooney named; no further appearances)

Comments:
Text story

Synopsis:
The police are called to the office of Harvey Brown, patent attorney. Sergeant Blake finds the office in chaos. Brown explains that Superman was just there. The Man of Steel destroyed the office to scare Brown into returning money that he swindled from clients.

Blake thinks Superman is still in the building. One of his men thinks he is in the elevator, so Blake and his men are waiting outside when the doors open. Instead of Superman, they find reporter Clark Kent inside. Clark then accompanies the police back to headquarters.

When they arrive, Blake is informed that murderer Biff Dugan has been captured. Clark asks for an interview. He uses a potential article about Blake's bungled attempt to apprehend Superman as leverage. Clark is given a private interview with Dugan, but the killer escapes through a window. Superman goes after him and brings him back to the station. Blake wants to blame Clark, but when the prisoner is found back inside the room, he is forced to acknowledge that Superman does some good.