(Action Comics I #11) - Clark and a fellow reporter stopped by the police station looking for stories, and were alerted to a suicide at the Bronson and Meeks Brokers firm. His fellow reporter learned that the suicide lost his fortune investing in Black Gold oil stock, and he called Bronson and Meeks murderers, noting that he himself had lost money on the worthless stock. Clark came up with a plan to expose the brokers, and disguised as "Homer Ramsey" he visited every client they bilked, and cleared out his savings to buy their stocks. He investigated the Black Gold drill site, and learned they'd never bothered to actually drill. As Superman he assembled the rig, and ug until he a rich patch of hit oil. Bronson and Meeks were shocked at the news about the oil, and were determined to buy back the stock they'd sold, but "Homer" refused to do business with them. The brokers contacted hitmen Louie the Rat and Nate the Snake to rub him out, but Homer made short work of them, and dumped them on the brokers' doorstop. Homer finally agreed to play ball, but demanded 1 million from the brokers. They sold all their assets to pay him, but then Superman wrecked the rig he'd set up and set the oil patch ablaze, bankrupting Bronson and Meeks, and he warned them to never try and cheat anyone again.

(Action Comics I #16) - Superman saved a suicidal man from hanging himself from a tree, and he explained that he'd stolen from his employer and lost all the money on gambling. Superman told him to turn himself in, saying it was better than losing his life, and he kept thinking about the corruptive powers of gambling. Clark went to editor Taylor, offering to do an investigative report on gambling, knowing someone in city hall was keeping the bigger operations in business. Clark interviewed police commissioner Watson, who said his mans had their hands full with murders and robbery and couldn't spare time to bust up gambling rings. Clark rebuked him sharply, and was told to leave Watson's office. Superman targeted Marty Kaye, who ran the Dixie Club, smashing the club's gambling machines, and getting the gamblers to help him when he showed them the games were rigged. He ripped apart Kaye's safe, took the money, and handed it out to the impoverished. Superman physically busted up every gambling joint in town, until the ringleaders called Watson for help. Superman told Watson the jig was up, and he was forced to resign. superman warned the top gamblers to leave Metropolis or he'd kill them.

(World's Best Comics #1) - Superman saved utilities magnate B. Drexel Rutherford and his wife from a blaze in their homes, and approached them afterwards as Clark Kent to learn what happened. Rutherford admitted that a seeming madman approached him claiming to be able to control rainfall, and after he sent him on his way his company was the victim of a number of unfortunate accidents. The Rainmaker threatened to destroy the imperial dam, and Superman dropped by to investigate, only to see an explosion rock the Rutherford office near the dam. He saved the employees, and was approached by one of Rainmaker's goons, who warned him to stop interfering in his boss' plans. Superman made it clear he wouldn't be bullied, and coerced the thug into revealing where the Rainmaker's hideout was. Superman confronted the villain, but couldn't stop him from activating the rain-making device, which quickly flooded the dam. The dam burst, but Superman dug a trench to divert the water into an arid valley. Perry sent Lois on a plane to cover the story, but the treacherous weather downed the aircraft, and Superman was forced to save Lois and the other passengers. The Rainmaker tried to take Lois hostage in desperation, but she freed herself from his grasp and he fled. Superman pursued the Rainmaker, who tripped and smacked his head into a rock, dying instantly. Superman returned to Metropolis to write up the story, and rubbed the fact that he'd scooped Lois again in her face.

(Superman I #20) -Lois had Daily Planet pressman Carl run off a gag paper featuring an expose revealing Clark Kent as Superman in order to play a practical joke on her co-worker. Clark didn t think it was funny, and he was aghast when Carl came down with appendicitis and without him around to stop production the paper made its way into the hands of the public. Perry White was furious that Lois had ruined his newspaper s reputation, and wanted to fire her, but she thought he was overreacting. Clark decided to save her job, and told Perry they could play it up as a good natured hoax. Perry liked the idea of saving face and selling papers, so he told Clark to dress as Superman and keep up the act for a while. Perry let his friend Lee Brandon, head of the Third National Bank, in on the hoax, and for a publicity stunt they hired actors to pretend to rob the bank and have Clark save the day. Mobster  Ironjaw  Grogan was in the Daily Planet building and overheard them. Realizing an opportunity for easy money, he had his gang replace the actors, and robbed the bank. Superman foiled them, then quickly changed back to Clark, and claimed he d chickened out on the publicity stunt. The Daily Planet then revealed Lois  article as a hoax, and Clark was happy his secret was still safe.

(Superman I #20) - Hitler s scientist Herr Fange unleashed a sea serpent on the coastal town of Weston, and Lois and Clark went to cover the story. The U.S. destroyer Grella was deployed to investigate, and Lois insisted they stow away to observe the action. Clark bowed out, feigning timidity, and changed to Superman. Superman brought Lois aboard the destroyer, and then locked her in the brig to keep her out of trouble. Fange sicced his sea monsters on the destroyer and Weston, causing havoc, but Superman turned them away. One of the monsters snatched up Lois, and Fange took her hostage, demanding that Superman allow him to destroy a U.S. convoy if he wanted her alive. Lois couldn't stand to see the convoy destroyed, so she tore away from Fange and leapt into the sea serpents clutches. Superman rescued her and the convoy, while the whistle Fange used to control the monsters malfunctioned, causing them to tear him to pieces.

(Superman I #20) - Perry White sent Lois and Clark to investigate a report that Superman was about to jump off the Chandler Suspension Bridge, only to find that it was a publicity stunt cooked up by Herman the Heroic, a wanna-be costumed adventurer who idolized Superman. Lois locked Clark in a zoo cage to keep him out of her way, but when Herman was about to get himself killed, Clark changed into Superman and rescued him. Superman appreciated Herman s gratitude but told him his foolishness would get him killed. Superman changed back to Clark and reentered the cage where Lois left him, but the cage and the big cats inside were stolen by the Leopard, who had a prediliction for jungle cats, and his gang. Superman attacked the gang, but they sicced a number of cats on him, allowing them to make their escape. Lois and Clark covered Herman s next stunt, wrestling a tiger at the Cosmos Circus. The Leopard replaced the old, toothless tiger with a vicious one, hoping to keep Superman occupied while he committed a robbery. Superman saved Herman again, and together they brought the Leopard to justice. Superman was happy to see that his number one fan wasn't always a foul-up.

(Superman I #20) - Clark covered the El Dorado club card tournament where a masked man challenged world champions in poker, bridge, rummy, and other games. He gave the world champs a go for their money, but narrowly lost each contest. Revealed as the Puzzler, he promised he d kill every last one of them for wounding his pride. His first target was poker champ Harlow Gates, who he beat to death with a hot poker. Puzzler tried to run bridge champ Morton Thornton off a bridge with his car, but Superman foiled him. Superman kept observation on the remaining card champs, and foiled several more attempted ironic murders. Puzzler was sick of his interference, and challenged him to meet at his hideout. Puzzler had a maze of deadly traps prepared for the Man of Tomorrow, and promised to surrender if he made it through alive. Superman caught him, but once the Puzzler was in police custody he escaped and faked his own death. The Puzzler was more determined than ever to kill Superman.

(All Star Comics I #36) - When Johnny Thunder caught a cold Superman took his place in a JSA meeting. Five formerly respectable men were creating a nationwide crime-wave, and the JSA split up to capture the men. Superman went to the city of Centropolis where he put back together a skyscraper blown up by the Wrecker. He found the Wrecker with Calvin Stymes help and dispatched the villain. Superman received a message from Wonder Woman and brought the Wrecker to JSA hq. Green Lantern learned the criminals were turned evil by Calvin Stymes, who exposed them to Koehaha, the Stream of Ruthlessness. Calvin wanted to see the men in jail or dead, so when the JSA brought the criminals to the Stream, Stymes set off an explosion. The JSA survived and a landslide crushed Stymes. The JSA knew the effects of the Koehaha would wear off and offered to testify at the criminals' trials so they would be found innocent by reason of temporary insanity. Superman picked up a giant boulder and covered up the Stream.

(Superman I #49) - Toyman escaped from custody on his way to prison, and witnesses at his trial for the theft of pearls started dying off, but Superman didn't believe he was a killer. Toyman sent him a Toyman doll with instructions on finding him, and begged for Superman's help, claiming he was being framed. Superman said he'd try to clear him and save him from the electric chair, but that he'd regret any funny business. Superman saved the two remaining witnesses from mechanical birds and a mechanical fish, and after interviewing them realized that Arnold Langs, the victim of the Toyman's theft was his prime suspect. He'd substituted fake pearls for the real ones during trial, and wanted to sell the pearls and collect the insurance money for them, and was knocking off the witnesses because they might have seen him makming the switch. Superman brought him to justice, but when he came to fetch Toyman the villain had taken Lois Lane hostage. He activated a fan that sprayed acid at her, knowing he'd have a chance to escape while Superman saved her. He flew off on a rocket-powered hobbyhorse, but Superman managed to save Lois and put him back in prison.

(Superman I #49) - Clark fled from a collapsing bridge so he could change to Superman and save the day, but a photog snapped pictures of Clark's apparant act of cowardice and Perry White fired him in disgust. Lois demanded that he find a backbone and redeem himself, and he got his chance when approached by inventor Ira Stone. Stone's competitor J.C. Quagmire had stolen his formula for a new paint, but overlooked one ingredient. Stone would prove the superiority of his paint by using it on dangerous outposts around the world and Lois and Clark agreed to accompany him. Quagmire sent his goon the Gargoyle after them, and when they painted a Himilayan mountaintop he created an avalance, but Superman saved Lois and Stone's life. He foiled the Gargoyle twice more, and managed to paint a volcano and an iceberg. Lois was happy that the story got Clark rehired, but was angry that he scooped her yet again.

(Superman I #49) - Perry White called Lois and Clark into his office concerned that circulation was decreasing because of the Examiner, which won public approval through fake scoops and phony stunts. Lois, inspired by Nellie Bly, the famous girl reporter who raced around the world in 72 days, announced her own bid to circle the globe. She'd use local transportation, and abandon her transport at midnight every day. Clark wondered if she needed Superman's help, and she was determined to go it alone, and flatly refused any aid. Clark changed to Superman to keep an eye on her, a wise choice since Examiner editor Ryall sent a thug after Lois to spoil her story. The thug was willing to resort to murder, but Superman stayed his hand and helped Lois behind the scenes, posing as a magic carpet in the Orient and assembling a crocodile team to pull her boat across the nile. On her return to Metropolis Lois literally ran into Ryall, who was so flustered that he confessed to attempted murder. Perry didn't believe Lois' story until he saw the photos, and Lois rubbed it in Clark's face.

(Superman I #50) - Promoter and crook Jasper Hawk offered $100,000 for anyone who could come up with a task that stumped Superman. The suggestions were all Hawk's, and all made by Hawk for financial gain. He challenged Superman to move Mt. Lincoln, because there was a gold vein underneath. Superman was wise to him and used smokestacks to create a hydraulic jet that moved the mountain, but also took the vein with it, leaving the gold for the use of local farmers. When he challenged Superman to dry a swamp so the land would become prime real estate Superman made it into a desert with an observatory lens. His final challenge was for Superman to build a harbor south of Metropolis. Superman used red-hot rocks from the deep stratum to accomplish the task, but Hawk had kidnapped the snooping Lois Lane, and Superman had to rescue her from his construction site. Hawk was led away, but Lois won $1000,000 and gave it to charity by asking Superman to reveal his secret identity, something he simply would not do.

(Superman I #50) - Prankster committed a series of robberies themed on literal interpretations of advertising slogans, and Superman came close to catching him at a charity ball, but Prankster escaped in a spring-loaded giant shoe. Superman made an ad for a pop drink that made its drinkers Supermen, knowing Prankster couldn't resist. Superman confronted Prankster at his pep-up pop stand, but Prankster had kidnapped Lois and placed her inside a giant pop bottle filled with explosives. Superman saved Lois and brought Prankster to prison. To rub his failure in his face he passed an ad for Happy Valley Subdivision, proclaiming "Your Future Home! You'll Never Leave!"

(Superman I #50) - Clark covered an induction ceremony at the Hunters' club, but was disgusted when new hunters who used their African guides to do all the work were admitted while elderly hunters Tom Alden, Wells and Orr were turned away. Despite their distinguished careers they had no trophies, and they were dead-set at getting new ones. Clark was worried that they'd risk their lives for their pride, so he gave them a helping hand as Superman. He gave them the opportunity for real rare game by hatching a Brontosaurus egg buried deep in the ground, unfreezing a Mastodon, and luring a sea serpent to the surface. The hunters captured theiur trophies, and presented them at the Hunters' Club, but the new hunters were jealous, and proclaiming the beasts to be fakes opened their cages. Superman helped Alden and friends round up the beasts, and they finally got the accolades they deserved.

(Superman I #51) -Mr. Mxyztplk proposed to Lois Lane, and refused to stop causing mischief until she consented. Lois agreed on the condition that he prove he was a better reporter, thus forcing Superman to help her win and help her career. Mxy scooped her getting an exclusive interview with millionaire recluse Seymour Salmon and getting the exclusive on an experimental rocket. Perry was worried about losing his star reporter so he gave Lois and Mxy the assignment of getting Superman to answer three questions. Lois seemed a lock until Mxy assaulted Metropolis with a giant hot sauce jar, and while Superman cleaned up the mess he responded to Mxyztplk's banter and answered three questions. Lois told Superman she'd never forgive him, and the marriage ceremony started. When the preacher asked if there were any objections Superman claimed Mxyztplk was an imposter named Klptzyxm, and Mxy was irritated enough to speak his name backwards in defense of himself, sending him back to Zriff.

(Superman I #51) - The Brighton Armored Company replaced their armored cars with tanks, and Perry sent Lois and Clark to cover the story. The tanks seemed to be a big success until crime genius Mr. Ohm built a plane equipped with a super-magnet to hijack the tanks. Superman couldn't stop them because the magnet repelled a magnetic substance in Superman's costume. During their next hijack Superman built his own super-magnet to counteract Ohm's and catch the crook.

(Superman I #51) - Lois tried to raise money for a new orphan-asylum, and when the money stopped coming in Superman offered his help. The new orphan-fund contest would award Superman's services to the winner for a day. Racketeer Pudge Purdy won Superman's services, and tried to reap financial gain, but Superman outsmarted him at every turn. When he asked for a huge chunk of ice Superman gave him an iceberg, when he asked for a million bucks Superman rounded up deer bucks with a giant salt-lick. Purdy had enough and decided to kill the Man of Steel. he asked for the world's most powerful gun, so superman sunk a mineshaft6 and made it into an airgun. he demonstrated the weapon on Purdy and his gang, sending them flying through the air and forcing them to ask for help, and after the experience they were willing to confess their crimes.

(JSA #82) <March 21, 1951> Superman and Batman discovered that someone had broken into JSA hq and raided their files. The culprit was the Gentleman Ghost, who later stole artificial jewels from Midwestern University an successfully warded off Superman. The Ghost tried to steal artifacts Carter Hall had stored in the Metropolis warehouse district, but was chased off by Superman and Wonder Woman.

(All-Star Comics I #62) - Superman responded to an emergency JSA signal when Hawkgirl was kidnapped by Lemurian sorcerer Zanadu. He told Power Girl that despite her joining the JSA against his objections she'd proved herself worthy, but she didn't care for his praise. Superman and the JSA found Zanadu in Tokyo where he was destroying the island and engaged him in battle.

(JSA #82) -  Heaven,  Superman brought his dying wife fresh flowers from a mountaintop, then let her get on with chronicling the greatest news stories she d ever covered.

(Blackest Night: Superman #1-3) - Superman and Lois Lane of Earth-2 were resurrected as part of the Black Lantern Corps. They were charged with ripping out the hearts of those emotionally affected by their resurrection, gathering their emotions and using them to help Nekron return and end life in the universe. They terrorized Smallville, killing the residents and extracting their fear. Kal-L then attacked Superman and Superboy, telling Superman he'd never live up his legacy, and trying to guilt trip him about Pa Kent's death. Superman realized it wasn't really Kal-L, but a husk, but was nonetheless infuriated. Lois kidnapped Ma Kent to heighten their emotions. Ma managed to escape, and Lois chased her through the corn fields. Ma kept her from resurrecting Pa Kent, and Krypto destroyed Lois. Black Lantern Psycho-Pirate joined the assault on Smallville and used his mind-control powers to turn Superboy against Superman. Superboy's will was too strong for Psycho-Pirate to manipulate, and he took the Medusa mask, restoring Smallville to sanity and deactivating the Black Lantern rings.

Superman received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #22. He received a profile in Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #12 under the Justice Society of America entry.

Superman had a cameo in DC Comics Presents #30 and Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1.

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