Comic Title: Superman #6
Publisher: DC (Superman, Inc.)
Address: 480 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
Cover Date: Sep/Oct 1940
On Sale Date: July 10, 1940 Newsstand Date July 10, 1940
Source: House Ad, Action Comics #27, Page 15

Copyright Date July 10, 1940
Source: Library of Congress, Periodicals 1940

Frequency: Bi-monthly
Cover Price: $0.10
Page Count: 64
Editor: Fredric Whitney Ellsworth

Title: (The Rulers of Gateston)
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. 4 TPB (2008)
Superman:The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 HC (2013)
Superman:The Golden Age Vol. 2 TPB (2017)

Feature Character(s)

• Superman (last appearance in Superman #6; next appearance in Superman #6)

Supporting Character(s)

• Lois Lane (last appearance in Superman #6; next appearance in Superman #6)
• George Taylor (last appearance in Action Comics #26; next appearance in Superman #6)

Villain(s)

• Brute Bashby and his men (racketeers; no further appearances)
• Morton Twist (a lawyer; no further appearances)

Other Character(s)

• Jim Tirrell (editor of the Gateston Gazette; dies in this story; no further appearances)
• Dick Daniels (an employee; no further appearances)
• Burt Mason (last appearance in Superman #5; no further appearances)
• George Tirrell (Jim’s brother; no further appearances)
• Calvin Chalmers and citizens of Gateston (no further appearances)

Comments:
Superman again appears to be flying in this story.

This story was not originally titled.

Synopsis:
Racketeer, Brute Bashby, has taken control of the small town of Gateston. Jim Terrill, editor of the local paper, is critical of Bashby and his unknown boss which leads to Terrill death in a car bombing. Lois and Clark arrive in town to investigate the racketeering. Additionally, the Gateston Gazette printing press is also bombed stopping production of the paper.

Clark contacts the publisher of the Daily Planet, who gratiously agrees to replace the destroyed equipment. Bashby tries to stop the delivery, but Superman intervenes. Bashby steps up his threats on the town, but Lois learns that a local lawyer, Morton Twist, is Bashby boss. They try to kill her with a car bomb as well, but Superman saves her. He forces the crooks into the rigged car, and gains confessions from the fearful men which ends the corruption in Gateston.