Comic Title: Superman:The Action Comics Archives Vol. 1 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1998
On Sale Date: December 10, 1997 Direct Market Date December 10, 1997
Source: ComicList, Diamond : New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 10, 1997

Direct Market Date December 10, 1997
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of December 11, 1997

Shipping Date December 10, 1997
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1256

Direct Market Date December 17, 1997
Source: ComicList, Diamond : New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, December 17, 1997

Copyright Date November 28, 1997
Source: Library of Congress, Copyright Office 1997

Direct Market Date November 26, 1997
Source: Previews, Vol. 7 #9 (#105)

Shipping Date November 26, 1997
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1254

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 224
Editor: Bob Kahan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (Superman Vs. the Cab Protective League)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Joe Shuster

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #13 (1939)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in New York World's Fair Comics (#1); next appearance in Superman #1)

Villain(s)

• Ultra-Humanite (a crippled scientist with the most agile and learned mind on Earth; next appearance in Action Comics #14)
• Reynolds (leader of the Cab Protective League; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Members of the Cab Protective League (some die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• A cab driver and Carlyle (a cab company owner; no further appearances)

Comments:
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:
Clark Kent discovers a racketeering group called the Cab Protective League which is threatening independent cab owners. Superman stops one of their men, Pete, from killing a rival cab owner and carries him around the city. The man struggles free of Superman’s grip and falls to his death.

Two more members continue to pressure the cab owner, so Superman pressures the crooks into destroying the cabs in their own garage. The leader, Reynolds, confesses to the police and is arrested.

Using poison gas, Reynolds escapes custody and is trailed by Superman back to a cabin hide-out. Superman meets the Ultra-Humanite, Reynolds’ boss. Ultra is a cripple who claims to have developed the most agile and learned mind on Earth in an scientific experiment.

The mastermind downs Superman with a high amount of electrical charge which could kill five hundred men. The charge only knocks Superman unconscious, so Ultra and Reynolds try to using an electric saw to kill him. The saw shatters against Superman’s skin, causing a fragment of the saw to strike and kill Reynolds.

Ultra and his men flee by plane and try to burn the cabin with Superman inside. The Man of Steel awakens and escapes the cabin. He knocks the aircraft from the sky, forcing it to crash. Searching the wreckage, Ultra’s body is never found.