Comic Title: Superman #9
Publisher: DC (Superman, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Mar/Apr 1941
On Sale Date: January 3, 1941 Newsstand Date January 3, 1941
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #33, Page 26, Detective Comics #48, Page 55

Copyright Date January 3, 1941
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941


Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Contains: Ownership Statement
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (Mystery in Swasey Swamp)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Paul Cassidy

Reprinted In:
Superman Archives Vol. 3 HC (1991)
Superman Chronicles Vol. 5 TPB (2008)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2016)
Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 3 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #9; next appearance in Superman #9)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #9; next appearance in Superman #9)
• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #33; next appearance in Action Comics #34)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Superman #3; next appearance in Superman #12)
• Sergeant Casey (last appearance in Superman #9; next appearance in Superman #9)

Villain(s)

• An unnamed scientist and his men (the scientist dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Tom Jepson (no further appearances)
• Krawl (Lamson’s assistant; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Mr. Lamson (a research lab owner; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Lois Lane is sent to investigate an electric disturbance near Swasey Swamp while Clark is sent to check on Lamson Laboratories which has received several threats. When Lois arrives at the swamp, only a man named Tom Jepson will take her into the swamp. They find a meteor there, and Lois is kidnapped by Jepson and some men clad in metal masks.

Clark is shot at by a plane as he visits Lamson at his lab. More metal-clad men appear and force Lamson to turn over the formula for W-142, a powerful new energy source. Superman stops the men and learns from Krawl, Lamson’s assistant and crook, that Lois has been captured.

Superman races to the swamp where he encounters the boss of the operation. The scientist uses a magnetic force against the Man of Steel, but Superman rescues Lois, and the crook is crushed in the carnage. Superman brings in Jepson and turns in the story as Clark Kent.