Superman #13 Values

Publisher: DC, 1941

About Superman #13

First full appearance of Jimmy Olsen, whose very own TV series is currently in development. Fred Ray war cover, drawn before the United States had entered World War II. Lex Luthor appearance. John Sikela art. Text story by Gardner Fox. This issue bears the first "A Superman DC Publication" logo on the cover.

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COVER DETAILS

Characters: Superman [Clark Kent]; the Nazis

Pencils: Fred Ray

Inks: Fred Ray

Letters: typeset

Notes: Art credits verified by Fred Ray.

STORY DETAILS

(8 Stories)

Title: The Light

Characters: Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Senator Tom Billingsley; The Light [Lex Luthor] (villain)

Synopsis: Superman must battle Lex Luthor who is disguised as The Light, a criminal who kidnaps prominent men from many different fields, hypnotizes them with colored lights, and makes them do his bidding.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils: Joe Shuster (layouts, signed); Leo Nowak (finishes)

Inks: Leo Nowak

Notes: Joe Shuster not listed in credits in Superman Archives #4. Story title from the Archives reprint.

Title: The Archer

Characters: Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen (name Jimmy revealed); Lois Lane; Perry White; Sgt. Casey; Thomas Gayford (death); Amos Kendrick; The Archer [Quigley] (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: A new villain hits the front pages of Metropolis' newspapers, a villain who prefers hunting human beings for profit rather than animals, and when Perry White cannot locate Lois or Clark to cover the story, a young office boy at the Daily Planet takes on the job himself --- and gets his first by-line!

Pages: 13.000

Script: Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils: Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (ghost, signed)

Inks: Leo Nowak

Notes: Jimmy Olsen is blonde-haired in this story; last name Olsen not used until issue #15. This is Jimmy's first definite appearance in a comic book. First named appearance was on the Superman radio program. Story title from the Archives reprint.

Title: Baby on the Doorstep

Characters: Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Bob Pierson (a baby, introduction); Clara Pierson (his mother); Leila (villain, introduction)

Synopsis: Clark Kent receives a note to go to a certain address to pick up a baby and to care for it for a few days. But when attempts are made to kidnap the child, Superman intervenes and discovers that the mother was trying to protect the child from enemy agents who believed she knew the secret of her late husband's war-time invention.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils: Leo Nowak [as Joe Shuster] (ghost, signed)

Inks: Leo Nowak

Reprints: Superman (DC, 1939 series) #253 (June 1972)

Notes: Story title taken from the Archives reprint.

Title: The City Beneath the Earth

Characters: Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Tulan (introduction); Kyack (villain, introduction, death)

Synopsis: Superman discovers an underground civilization beneath Metropolis that has been using a ray apparatus to destroy buildings in Metropolis and elsewhere. He meets with Kyack and learns that this civilization once populated the Earth before the ice age, and the glaciers forced them underground, where they built their new civilization. Now they are planning an invasion of the Earth's surface and restore the rule they once had over it.

Pages: 13.000

Script: Jerry Siegel (signed)

Pencils: John Sikela [as Joe Shuster] (ghost, signed)

Inks: John Sikela

Notes: Story title taken from the Archives reprint.

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CGC Census Report*

Grade	NG	PG	CVR	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.8	2.0	2.5	3.0	3.5	4.0	4.5	5.0	5.5	6.0	6.5	7.0	7.5	8.0	8.5	9.0	9.2	9.4	9.6	9.8	9.9	10.0	Total
Universal	1	3	0	6	5	3	4	8	10	17	9	15	11	13	9	5	12	9	9	5	7	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	164
Qualified	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Signature Series	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CGCxJSA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Restored	0	0	0	1	1	4	2	1	1	1	3	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	30
Total	1	3	0	7	6	7	7	9	11	19	12	16	13	16	11	7	14	10	10	8	8	5	2	0	0	0	0	0	198

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