Comic Title: Superman:The Action Comics Archives Vol. 2 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1998
On Sale Date: September 9, 1998 Direct Market Date August 12, 1998
Source: Previews, Vol. 8 #6 (#114)

Direct Market Date September 9, 1998
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, September 9, 1998

Direct Market Date September 9, 1998
Source: Usenet, Late Comics Report for the week of September 12, 1998

Shipping Date September 9, 1998
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1296

Shipping Date August 26, 1998
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #1294

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 232
Editor: Bob Kahan

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (Professor Cobalt's Quack Clinic)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Penciller: Paul Cassidy
Inker: Paul J. Lauretta

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #26 (1940)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in New York World's Fair Comics (#2); next appearance in Action Comics #27)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in New York World's Fair Comics (#2); next appearance in Action Comics #27)
• George Taylor (last appearance in New York World's Fair Comics (#2); next appearance in Superman #6)

Villain(s)

• Professor Clarence Cobalt and Grafton (his assistant; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Tommy, his mother, several other crippled children, and their parents (no further appearances)

Comments:
Superman is shown to have a photographic memory.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Professor Clarence Cobalt is denied advertising space in the Daily Planet by the editor. Cobalt is considered to be a quack doctor who takes advantage of the injured people. Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent to investigate his clinic where they meet a patient who was given sugar pills instead of real medicine.

Lois goes undercover to expose the phony doctor. When Cobalt and his assistant discover the ploy, they kidnap Lois and Clark. While locked in a separate room, Clark uses his powers to escape and rescues Lois as Superman. Then he also steals a safe containing the records of Cobalt’s illegal activities.

Clark returns to the room, without the crooks knowing he escaped. They release him when they see the article Lois has written, exposing them. Worried that they become exposed, the doctors visit the families of their patients and retrieve the fake medicine from them. Superman contacts the families also and informs them of the scam. Angered by the doctor’s manipulation, the families try to lynch Cobalt and his assistant. Superman stops them, and gets a confession from Cobalt, bringing him to justice.