Comic Title: Superman Archives Vol. 3 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 1991
On Sale Date: September 24, 1991 Shipping Date September 24, 1991
Source: Previews, #31

Shipping Date September 24, 1991
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #993

Direct Market Date September 26, 1991
Source: Comic Shop News, #214, Page 2

Direct Market Date November 7, 1991
Source: Comic Shop News, #228

Shipping Date September 24, 1991
Source: Wizard Magazine, #2

Direct Market Date October 1, 1991
Source: Comics Buyers Guide, #993

Cover Price: $39.95
Page Count: 272
Editor: Mike Gold

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (The Invisible Luthor)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Leo Nowak

Reprinted From:
Superman #10 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #35; next appearance in Superman #10)

Supporting Character(s)

• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #35; next appearance in Superman #10)
• Sergeant Casey (last appearance in Superman #9; next appearance in Superman #10)

Villain(s)

• Luthor (last appearance in Superman #5; next appearance in Superman #12)
• Luthor’s henchmen (die in this story; no further appearances)
• Bob Dunning (Luthor’s partner; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Mayor and his assistants (no further appearances)

Comments:
Lex Luthor is depicted bald for the first time in this story, no longer sporting red hair.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Clark Kent witnesses a bank disappear from sight, and then rematerialize after having been robbed. Soon the city’s water supply also vanishes. A mysterious voice from an invisible plane tells Superman about a demand for one hundred million dollars in order to return the water.

Clark Kent informs the Mayor about the demands of the unknown crook. The city decides to allow Superman to deliver the money, but the money itself is fake. When the Man of Steel delivers the money he learns that Luthor is the crook, but is also working with someone else.

Superman plays possum so that he can trail Luthor to his partner. The trail leads him to Bob Dunning who planned on using the money to cover a stock manipulation scam. Superman smashes the machine that made the water disappear and captures Dunning, but Luthor escapes in the invisible plane.