Comic Title: Superman:The Action Comics Archives Vol. 3 HC
Publisher: DC
Cover Date: 2001
On Sale Date: August 1, 2001 Direct Market Date August 8, 2001
Source: Previews, Vol. 11 #6 (#150)

Direct Market Date August 1, 2001
Source: ComicList, New Comic Book Releases List for Wednesday, August 1, 2001

Direct Market Date August 1, 2001
Source: Diamond Shipping List, Shipping This Week: August 1

Cover Price: $49.95
Page Count: 240
Editor: Dale Crain

See Also: The Guide to Graphic Novels and Collected Editions

Title: (The Man with the Radioactive Touch)
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.