Cover: Wayne Boring & Stan Kaye

Action Comics #118

Mar 1948 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The Execution of Clark Kent!”

In "The Execution of Clark Kent!", Superman orchestrates a daring deception when Clark Kent is sentenced to death for a crime he didn’t commit—setting the stage for a high-stakes mission to expose mobster Big Al Strumm. With Joe Shuster handling both pencils and inks, the story unfolds with the kind of bold, expressive art that defined Superman’s early years, while Wayne Boring’s cover captures the electric tension of the moment.

artist, inker Joe Shuster · inker Win Mortimer · cover Wayne Boring, Stan Kaye

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artist, inker Joe Shuster

inker Win Mortimer

cover pencils Wayne Boring

cover inks Stan Kaye

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Clark Kent is arrested for murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. But Clark's death is part of an elaborate ruse for Superman to help Lois get evidence against mobster Big Al Strumm.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).