Comic Title: Superman Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1989
On Sale Date: October 24, 1989 Shipping Date October 24, 1989
Source: Previews, #8

Shipping Date October 24, 1989
Source: Amazing Heroes, #172

Direct Market Date October 26, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #113, #119

Shipping Date October 26, 1989
Source: Advance Comics, #10

Direct Market Date November 16, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #125

Direct Market Date December 14, 1989
Source: Comic Shop News, #128, #129

Cover Price: $39.95
Page Count: 272
Editor: Richard Bruning

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "Superman Champions Universal Peace"
Pages: 24

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Penciller: Joe Shuster
Inker: Paul Cassidy

Reprinted From:
Superman #2 (1939)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #2; next appearance in Superman #2)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #15; next appearance in Action Comics #18)
• George Taylor (last appearance in Superman #2; next appearance in Superman #2)
• Jimmy Olsen (last appearance in Action Comics #10; next appearance in Superman #3)

Villain(s)

• Bartow and his two accomplices (racketeers; no further appearances)
• Lubane, the leaders of two warring factions and several Boravian soldiers (no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Adolphus Runyan (an inventor; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story originally appeared as a serial in the Superman daily newspaper strip and was in black and white.

Daily Star editor, George Taylor, is named for the first time in this story.

Metropolis is first named in this story and is located in New York.

Synopsis:
Clark Kent reports on a new gas invented by Professor Runyan which is deadly and no gas mask can prevent. Three racketeers led by Bartow burst in and demand that the professor turn over his formula. Later Runyan is found murdered and the formula stolen. Superman follows the three crooks to the warring country of Boravia.

In Boravia, Superman is captured briefly after being knocked unconscious by a bomb. Bartow orders a firing squad be used on him, but Superman shrugs off the bullets. After destroying numerous weapons, Superman finds that Bartow has delivered the formula to munitions manufacturer, Lubane.

Lubane uses the formula to make a sample of the gas which he tries to use on Superman. The gas does not affect Superman’s physical structure, but it does kill Lubane. Superman then forces the nation’s leaders to make peace, before traveling home to insure Bartow is arrested for killing Runyan.