Comic Title: Superman #8
Publisher: DC (Superman, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Jan/Feb 1941
On Sale Date: November 10, 1940 Newsstand Date November 10, 1940
Source: House Ad, Batman #3, Page 15,
Action Comics #31, Page 13,
Detective Comics #46, Page 13

Copyright Date November 8, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1941
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: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Giants of Professor Zee)
Pages: 13

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

Writer: Jerry Siegel
Artist: Paul Cassidy

Reprinted In:
Superman Archives Vol. 2 HC (1990)
Superman Chronicles Vol. 5 TPB (2008)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 HC (2016)
Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 3 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in DC Special #29; next appearance in Superman #8)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Action Comics #31; next appearance in Superman #8)
• Perry White (last appearance in Superman #7; next appearance in Superman #8)

Villain(s)

• Professor Zee and Professor Cardos (scientists; die in this story; no further appearances)
• Several giant men (die in this story; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• The Governor and Lillian (his daughter; no further appearances)

Comments:
This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Scientists, Professor Zee and Professor Cardos, have discovered a way to increase the size of living organisms. Using this discovery they create a group of giant men who run rampant causing destruction. One of the giants abducts the governor and his daughter, while Superman tries to corral them.

Battling the giants in the mountains, Superman causes an avalanche which takes out a few of the giants, but he himself is dragged under. He escapes, but not before Lois Lane is captured while looking on from an aircraft.

In Professor Zee’s laboratory, the girls appear to be enlarged by the machine. Superman destroys the lab, while Zee and Cardos are trampled by their own giant creations. Lois and the governors daughter are okay as their growth was only an illusion, and the last of the giants are killed in the destruction of the lab.