ACTION COMICS (1938) #96

“HAIRCUT – AND A CLOSE SHAVE!” A struggling writer decides to become a criminal as research for his next book, even if it attracts the attention of Superman! Cover: Superman is playing a game of checkers underwater. Superman: Author Dan Judd is getting a haircut and telling the barber the story of how his last novel was written. Judd claims that he can write only if he experiences the events in his books directly, so when he gets an idea for a novel based on a new way of committing crime, he needs to find himself some thugs who will work for him. As luck would have it, when he looks out from his balcony, he sees Superman chasing three crooks.…