When Did Superman First Crush Coal Into a Diamond?
Oddly enough, it took almost a decade before Superman first did this. It was in Action Comics #115's "The Wish That Came True!" from late 1947. In a story by Alvin Schwartz, Ira Yarbrough and Stan Kaye, Superman goes undercover as a crook because a crook had impersonated Superman and made a sick kid think that Superman was a …