Superman, #44

Published: January-February 1947

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Issue Contents:
Playthings of Peril

Story Featuring Superman

Credits
Story Notes

inker credit by Bob Hughes

Playthings of Peril!

Story Featuring Superman

Storyline

Toyman gives some greedy businessmen a chance to appear to be helping poor children by donating the use of special toys, but in reality it is a scheme by Toyman to rob the businessmen.

Story Notes

writer credit by Martin O'Hearn; inker credit by Bob Hughes

The Men Who Didn't Die on Time!

Story Featuring Superman

Storyline

Superman investigates when the obituary editor at the Daily Planet starts printing obituaries of people before they die, only to have them subsequently die in the same way that the obituary foretold.

Credits
Story Notes

credits by Bob Hughes

Sky Ride
Credits
Shakespeare's Ghost Writer!

Story Featuring Superman

Storyline

Lois and Clark are accidentally sent through time, where with the help of Superman they save the life of William Shakespeare. Because of Superman's appearance in the past, Lois thinks Clark must be Superman, but he fools her with a dummy and some ventriloquism. Stuck in the past, Lois and Clark start the first newspaper, and Superman helps Shakespeare write Macbeth.

Story Notes

1st (?) time travel story. Superman can't travel through time by himself in this story. Inker credit by Bob Hughes.

"Ah! Seventy-two!"

Credits

"Good afternoon, sir..."

Credits
How to Outbluff a Vicious Dog at Night!
Story Notes

Back cover.

Red Ryder's Safety Message to Daisy Air Rifle Owners

Story Featuring Red Ryder

Credits
Story Notes

Inside back cover.

How Thom McAn Rescued the Polar Explorers
Superman's Secret Message
O Is for Opposum
Editorial Advisory Board
Clark Shaughnessy
Story Notes

Inside front cover.