Action Comics (vol. 1) #19 (Dec. 1939):
“Superman and the Purple Plague”
by Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster

Action Comics (vol. 1) #19

Title: “Superman and the Purple Plague”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Dec. 1939

Publisher:
Written by: Jerry Siegel
Art by: Joe Shuster

8 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Superman (Clark Kent)	Methodist / Kryptonian religion	Kryptonians; Super Friends...  The Justice League		13,409
The Ultra-Humanite	Nazi; classical music	Secret Society of Super Villains; Time Stealers [Superman's 1st super-villain foe]		59
Professor Henry Travers	indeterminate	[developed cure for deadly Purple Plague]		1
Dr. Greenley (3-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[scientist]		1
unnamed librarian (2-panel cameo)	indeterminate	[librarian]		1
unnamed nurse (2-panel cameo)	idiosyncratic	[nurse]		1
De Fauvier (mentioned)	Catholic	[wrote key study on Purple Plague]		1
Louis Pasteur (mentioned)	Catholic	[chemist; microbiologist]		24

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