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Superman Comic STRIP hero?
Proof? Well, of course Superman #2 were all newspaper strips reprinted in comic book form, but there are other links. For instance, in Superman #17, "Man--or Superman?", the story in which Lois first seriously suspected Clark was Superamn, we have two pages of retrospective in Lois' scrapbook.
Of course, the first picture is the cover of Action #1, but that second one--where she said not long after, Superman caught her falling from a plane? There are a lot of stories where Lois did something similar, but the earliest was in the first newspaper comic strip story, with another early meeting of Lois and Superman. (It would take a little fudging to fit Action #1 and the opening newspaper story together, but it could be done.)
Okay, that can't be taken as iron-clad, but the NEXT page has a very interesting reference.
"The time he aided Eustace Watson was a classic". That is a reference to the story that ran in the Superman newspaper comic strip from December 1940 through March 1941.
Another more famous reference was this panel from Superman #25.
That refers to the first newspaper strip written after Pearl Harbor, where Clark Kent rushes to enlist..
Eventually, the Superman newspaper strip and the Superman comic book did diverge--probably after Siegel was drafted--but during his early years, you had to read the comic book AND the newspaper strip to get the full flavor of Superman's adventures.
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