Comic Title: Superman #42
Publisher: DC (Superman, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Sep/Oct 1946
Approx. On Sale Date: July 3, 1946 Copyright Date July 1, 1946
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1946-1947
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: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 48
Editor: Jack Schiff

Title: "The Death of Clark Kent"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Alvin Schwartz
Penciller: Ira Yarbrough
Inker: Stan Kaye

Reprinted In:
Superman #284 (1975)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5 HC (2018)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #42; next appearance in Action Comics #100)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #42; next appearance in Action Comics #100)

Villain(s)

• Pinky Redd (a racketeer; behind-the-scenes; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Professor Fergusson and members of an arctic expedition (no further appearances)
• The managing editor of the Gazette and Hal Hocum (no further appearances)
• Joe and his wife (no further appearances)

Synopsis:
Clark Kent returns to Metropolis early from an arctic expedition. Lois witnesses him caught in an explosion from which no one could have survived. Superman is forced to adopt a new identity as Clarkson. He then tries to find a new job, first as a cub reporter for the Gazetter, then as a waiter, finally as a vacuum salesman. Each job is a failure.

He then visits Lois as Superman. She tells him that the arctic expedition learned of Clark's apparent death. They tell her that he left the same day he was supposedly killed and could not have made it back to Metropolis. Lois thinks the man she saw only resembled Clark. Superman then tells Lois, that he will find the real Kent. Superman is the able to resume his Clark Kent identity.