Today on The Superman Super Show, your intrepid hosts Ed and Steeven crack open Action Comics #39 and race headlong into a tale of science gone sour, secrets that burn, and a mystery that chills the blood with The Radioactive Man!

From the shadowed halls of Chalmers Laboratories to the graveyard’s moonlit stones, a devasting experiment leaves a scientist presumed dead — only to return as a hooded, bullet-proof terror whose very touch spells doom.

When a night watchman is found dead with radium burns and Sergeant Casey points an accusing finger at Superman, Clark Kent must don the cape and clear the name of the city’s greatest hope. But nothing's as it seems. 

Will Superman unmask the glowing fiend before Metropolis is plunged into panic?

I mean, probably.

Action Comics #39 was published by DC Comics in June of 1941.

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