Story: "The Secret Origin of the Golden Age Superman" (23 Pages)

Credits:

Roy Thomas (plot, script, edits)
Wayne Boring (pencils)
Jerry Ordway (inks)
David Cody Weiss (letters)
Gene D'Angelo (colors)

Feature Character:

Superman (Kal-L of Krypton-Two and Earth-Two; also as Clark Kent; last in New Adventures of Superboy #14/2; next in Action Comics #3)

Supporting Characters:

Lois Lane (of Earth-Two, later Lois Lane Kent; first chronological appearance, next in Action Comics #3)
Jor-L
Lara (of Krypton-Two, first appearance?, both die)
John Kent
Mary Kent (of Earth-Two, first appearance?, both die)
George Taylor (of Earth-Two, edits of the Daily Star, appears next in ???)

Villains:

Bea Carroll (first appearance; a murderess)
Butch and other thugs (first appearance)

Other Characters:

Evelyn Curry and Sims (first appearance of both; both framed for the death of Jack Kennedy, a union organizer)

Chronological Commments: John and Mary Kent's birth dates are given as 1868 and 1865. Their date of death is 1938.

Commments: This story is "narrated" by the Encyclopedia Galactica, 30th Century Editon.
This is the first issue of the third series to be called Secret Origins.
This issue also contains a page of vinettes drawn by the 1940's Shuster Art Studio, including work by Joe Shuster
Paul Cassidy
John Sielka
Ed Dobrotka and Leo Nowak.