Stories from 1938
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April 21, 1938
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Cleveland, OH
It's a bird... it's a plane... it's Superman! Superman was seen for the first time on the cover of comic book Action Comics No. 1. Jerry Siegel and Joel Shuster had created the superhero 5 years earlier and sold the rights to the character to DC Comics. Almost three quarters of a century later, a copy of the first comic with the Man of Steel on the front would sell for $1 million.
October 24, 1938
Congress passed legislation to establish the first minimum wage of $0.25 per hour (approximately $4 in 2010 dollars).
October 30, 1938
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NJ
The Mercury Theatre on Air broadcasted Orson Welles reading of sci-fi novel War of the Worlds, accidentally leading Americans to believe that aliens were invading earth.
