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The perspective is a bit weird, but it looks like the waves are about half a mile to a mile away at best, and seem to be about 80-10 stories high, and if we assume these move at the speeds of average Tsunami's (which can range from 300-500 MPH) it would probably take at worst a minute. Which is pretty damn fast even if we assume he got mountains from the closest part of the Range.

Where was Metropolis located in Golden Age DC?
 
Ah wait the elevation of the Appalachian Mountains are actually 2037 m.

pi*240000^2*(2037/3)*5*2800 = 1.7201652e18 kg, Class E

@Jared111 Couldn't Superman have got the mountains before the tsunami started rising?
 
Closest mountains would be about 100 miles outside New York at worst, so if he accomplished it in, lets say less than a minute. So about 200 miles in less than a minute, so about 12,000 MPH while also carrying a literal mountain range.

I'm sure someone else can be a bit more precise, but either way that's pretty impressive.

@Spino

The page shows him seeing at Metropolis when the waves have already formed, and then he decides to go get the mountain range. If anything it seems he may have gotten to Metropolis while the waves had already formed and then went to get the Mountain range.
 
Alright.

If it's 12 000 mph or 5364.48 m/s, then

0.5*1.7201652e18*5364.48^2 = 2.4751152e25 Joules, 5.92 petatons, Multi-Continent level

Huh
 
So i looked into it, since it mentions a the Appalachian Mountain Range, the closest Mountain area that fits in the Appalachian Range is the Catskill mountains, which is 100 Miles outside of New York City, and have a total area of 15,259 km^2. It contains over 30 mountains that are over 3500 feet as well. So that begs the question how much energy would it take to move that at least 200 Miles in less than a minute (or 12,000 MPH)?
 
Well, at least 30-35 mountains that are above 3500 feet, but for the sake of the argument let's round about 30 mountains at 3500 feet. How much energy to move those 12,000 mph.
 
The mountains are 2400 km, so divided by 30 we get 80 km each.

pi*80000^2*(1066.8/3)*30*2800 = 6.0058002687864678368e17 kg, Class P

12 000 mph is 5364.48 m/s

0.5*6.0058002687864678368e17*5464.48^2 = 8.9668224595098922e24 Joules, Continent level
 
The timeframe is important here. As the profile mentions, Superman's powers steadily increased during the late 40s and early 50s.

I'll check the scans.
 
The appalachian mountain feat is from Superman #48 in 1947, which takes place before the Skyscraper feat in Issue #74 and the star freezing in issue #91.

This is Superman issue #66, while the skyscraper feat is from issue #65 and the meteor feat is from Action Comics issue #78 (meaning the OG comic line).

Given that I've covered the high-end important feats, I don't really think the rest matter, not that I could track them down.

Edit: They had all the comics in that RT.
 
I take it that all the feats I posted above are applicable for his early GA key, unless I'm missing something of course.
 
I'd say most of the feats before 1950 (especially 1954) are viable for a start.
 
Spinosaurus75DinosaurFan said:
I applied the OP already, we're discussing potential higher feats atm.
Okay. No problem.
 
Spinosaurus75DinosaurFan said:
The mountains are 2400 km, so divided by 30 we get 80 km each.
pi*80000^2*(1066.8/3)*30*2800 = 6.0058002687864678368e17 kg, Class P

12 000 mph is 5364.48 m/s

0.5*6.0058002687864678368e17*5464.48^2 = 8.9668224595098922e24 Joules, Continent level
Well that seems pretty consistent with the other calculation.

Only other calculation is taking the Range quote at it's most literal, and having Superman lift the entirety of the mountain range to Metropolis at once. Assuming he still has to go 100 miles to pickup on end and not have to go all the way to the middle to get all the mountains, He'd have to pick up wabout 500 mountains i could find that are actually named and measured, with about 1500 Meters in average elevation among them all.
 
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