Comic Title: Action Comics #9
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: February 1939
Approx. On Sale Date: January 3, 1939 Copyright Date January 2, 1939
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1939
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: 64
Editor: Vincent A. Sullivan

Title: (Wanted:Superman)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Joe Shuster

Reprinted In:
Superman:The Action Comics Archives Vol. 1 HC (1998)
Superman Chronicles Vol. 1 TPB (2006)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2013)
Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #8; next appearance in Action Comics #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #7; next appearance in Action Comics #10)
• George Taylor (last appearance in Action Comics #7; next appearance in Action Comics #10)

Other Character(s)

• Police Chief Burke (last appearance in Action Comics #8; no further appearances)
• Captian Reilly, Mortimer Snoop, and Saunders (a police detective, an amateur detective, and a mental patient; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story is continued in part from the first story of Action Comics #8.

This story originally was not titled; the title shown here was given on the contents page of Action Comics Archives Vol. 1 in which this story is reprinted.

Synopsis:
Superman is wanted by the police for destroying slum tenements. The chief of police assigns Captain Reilly, a Chicago detective who always gets his man, to the case. Reilly posts a five thousand dollar reward on Superman’s head and intends to get the reward himself.

While saving a suicidal mental patient, Superman is observed by amateur detective, Mortimer Snoop. Snoop finds Superman’s civilian clothes and alerts Captain Reilly. However, both men’s greed allows Superman to retrieve his clothes from under their noses.

Later, Snoop learns that Superman will be attending a party. He tries to crash the party, but is not allowed inside. He phones Lois Lane at the Daily Star and offers her a story in exchange for entrance. Lois arrives and enters but denies entrance to Snoop in an effort to protect Superman, whom she has developed a crush on.

Snoop phones Reilly who breaks in to the party. He begins searching the guests, but when Snoop realizes Reilly is going to stiff him on the reward, he shuts off the lights. Clark who was about to be searched, changes clothes in the dark and when the lights come back on, defeats the detectives as Superman. Reilly leaves town in disgrace, while Superman remains free.