9:44 AM
A Metafilter post pointed me to this scan of Action Comics #1. Great not just for the Superman story but also for the Zatara, Tex Thomson*, and Scoop Scanlan stories--characters often lost in the glare of Superman's first appearance. I love the graceful art in the Marco Polo story, too.

* Though I knew he was an older character, I remember Tex from his appearance in recent years as the Americommando in The Golden Age (and, in slightly altered form, Kingdom Come); Jess Nevins' annotation of Kingdom Come #2 explains how the cowboy you see in Action Comics #1 became the uberpatriot recast as villain in modern books:

"The Americommando debuted in _Action Comics #1_ as Tex Thomson, who travelled the world with his sidekick Bob Daley, fighting crime and encountering the bizarre and grotesque. In _Action Comics #33_ Tex put on a domino mask, took up a whip, and began fighting crime and costumed criminals (including a Chinese cyclops named Gorrah) as Mr. America; in _Action Comics_ #54 Mr. America went behind enemy lines and fought the Nazis as the Americommando. The Americommando returned to America in _Action Comics_ #74 and was not seen again until brief cameos in _All-Star Squadron_, thirty years later.