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 and the Skyscrapers"
Pages: 16

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)

• George Taylor (last appearance in Superman #2; next appearance in Action Comics #17)

Villain(s)

• A saboteur (working as a night watchman; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Butch Grogan and his accomplice (saboteurs; no further appearances)
• Nat Grayson (president of Akme Construction Company; no further appearances)

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

Synopsis:
Superman keeps a lookout for sabotage of a building which is under construction. Five deaths have occurred due to accidents near the building. The Man of Steel spots a night watchmen sabotaging a girder. He stops the man and forces him to give up the name of his employer, Butch Grogan. The man then dies of a heart attack.

Superman confronts Grogan who was hired by a rival constuction company, Akme, to slow progress on the building and ruin the reputation of Bruce Constructions. Grogan is shot fleeing from police but not before warning Nat Grayson, president of Akme, about Superman.

Locked in a metal room, Grayson hides from Superman and uses explosives against him. Superman survives and rips through the steel barricade. He forces Grayson to confess, which earns him a date with the electric chair.