Comic Title: Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 3 TPB
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2017
On Sale Date: June 21, 2017 Direct Market Date June 21, 2017
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Direct Market Date June 21, 2017
Source: Previews, #342

Cover Price: $29.99
Page Count: 376
Editor: Robin Wildman

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: "The Radioactive Man"
Pages: 12

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Leo Nowak

Reprinted From:
Action Comics #39 (1941)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Action Comics #38; next appearance in Superman #12)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #38; next appearance in Superman #12)
• Perry White (last appearance in Action Comics #38; next appearance in Superman #12)
• Sergeant Casey (last appearance in Action Comics #38; next appearance in Superman #12)

Villain(s)

• The Ghost (Brett Bryson; a lab scientist; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Frank Chalmers (a lab owner; dies in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• May Bryson (Brett’s wife; no further appearances)
• Tom Spaulding (a district attorney; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
After lab scientist Brett Bryson dies in a lab explosion, the lab owner Frank Chalmers is investigated for negligence. Chalmers is cleared, but a hooded man who is bulletproof begins terrorizing Metropolis. Sergeant Casey suspects Superman, but fingerprints reveal it to be the suspected dead man Bryson.

Superman observes Chalmers and discovers that Bryson is alive. The explosion has made the scientist’s touch radioactive and left him with a week to live. Chalmers, Bryson, and their assistant Davis concocted a scheme to steal money for Bryson’s soon-to-be widow. Superman exposes the scheme, but Bryson kills Chalmers when he learns his boss double-crossed him. Bryson then succumbs to radiation poisoning.