Comic Title: Superman #2
Publisher: DC (Detective Comics, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Fall 1939
Approx. On Sale Date: August 22, 1939 Copyright Date August 19, 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: Quarterly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Vincent A. Sullivan

Title: "Superman Champions Universal Peace"
Pages: 24

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

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

Reprinted In:
Superman Archives Vol. 1 HC (1989)
Superman:The Dailies:1939-1942 HC (1998)
Superman:The Dailies, Vol. 1, 1939-1940 TPB (2000)
Superman Chronicles Vol. 2 TPB (2007)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2013)
Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 1 TPB (2016)

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.