Religion: indeterminate
Name: unnamed police commissioner
Classification:
supporting character
Publisher(s): 
First Appearance: Action Comics (vol. 1) #25 (June 1940): "Amnesiac Robbers"
Creators: Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Paul Cassidy
Number of Appearances: 1
Occupation: police
Gender: male
An unnamed Metropolis police commissioner appears on pages 2 and 3 in the Superman story in Action Comics #25 (June 1940). This police commissioner has short brown hair and a moustache. On page 2 he talks with a banker who is irate about money being stolen from his armored car drivers - drivers who have no memory of the robbery. The police commissioner explains to the banker that this was just one of dozens of similar robberies. The police commissioner in this scene wears a green suit with bold vertical stripes.
On page 3 we see that the next day, the police commissioner wears a solid green suit. He is surprised and upset that the story of these robberies was written up in the newspaper by reporter Clark Kent. The commissioner had been trying to keep the story under wraps. The mayor tells the commissioner he must solve this case, "or you're out!"
Just a few months prior to the publication of this story, retroactively titled "Amnesiac Robbers," an unnamed police commissioner appear in "Terror In the Trucker's Union" in Superman (vol. 1) #4 (Spring 1940). But that previous police commissioner had reddish-blonde hair and no moustache, so we are assuming that this story's police comissioner is a different character. Perhaps these police commissioners represent different jurisdictions within the sprawling city of Metropolis, or perhaps there has been a change of personnel in the interim.
The mayor and the police commissioner appear again in the last panel of this story, both wearing completely different clothing. The police commissioner wears a solid brown suit coat.
The police commissioner, distinguished by his brown head of hair and moustache, tells the mayor, "Well, I promised you that the mystery of the amnesia-robberies would soon be solved, didn't I?"
The mayor replies, "I'm sure the voters will be grateful to me when election time rolls around!"
Next to them are Clark Kent and Lois Lane, who talk with each other about how they and Superman deserve the real credit for breaking the case.
Action Comics (vol. 1) #25 (June 1940): "Amnesiac Robbers" (4-panel cameo)
Suggested links for further research about this character:
- https://www.comics.org/issue/819/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=60146