Some 3,000,000 readers buy Action Comics , Superman and World's Finest Comics regularly. Superman appears in all three publications. He is syndicated in more than 200 newspapers with a circulation of 20,000,000. Naturally, Superman's greatest effect has been on children. Mothers, realizing the power of this third parent, have gotten into the habit of asking Superman to drop a line to Junior, urging him to eat his egg yolk and stop biting his nails.
Boys write in, asking how to beat bullies.
A few years ago the villain happened to be bad grammar, and Superman tackled this menace with the same zeal he used in cracking down on Superbum Luthor, his perennial enemy in the comic strips. But Downes noticed their pockets were stuffed with comic books, particularly Superman . So off he went to Superman, Inc., in New York. Superman was a grammarian. When Downes tried the workbooks on his classes, homework became easier.