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| Action Comics 326, July 1965! |
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ACTION COMICS 326, July 1965, was published on May 27, 1965. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of 12¢. Mort Weisinger was the editor, and the cover was pencilled by Curt Swan, inked by George Klein and lettered by Joe Letterese.
- (7:20) THE LEGION OF SUPER-CREATURES (12 pgs.), written by Otto Binder, pencilled by Curt Swan, inked by George Klein and lettered by Joe Letterese.
- (30:30) THE SECRET OF SUPERGIRL'S SUITOR (12 pgs.), written by Jerry Siegel and drawn by Jim Mooney. This was Siegel's 90th silver age Superman Family story, and his 144th overall for the era.
- (50:52) METROPOLIS MAILBAG letter column.
Also highlighted in this episode are the issue's ads and other features.
Next Episode: SUPERMAN FAMILY COMIC BOOK COVER DATED JULY 1965 PART IV: SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN 86 & Elsewhere In DC Comics, according to Mike's Amazing World Of Comics.
Then we will cover: SUPERMAN FAMILY COMIC BOOKS COVER DATED AUGUST 1965: PART I: 80 PG. GIANT 13 (featuring Jimmy Olsen), PART II: WORLD'S FINEST COMICS 151, PART III: SUPERMAN 179, PART IV: ACTION COMICS 327 & PART V: SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE 59!
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I vividly remember having read "The Legion of Super-Creatures" as a boy, and I still enjoy it now. I do find it odd that the Phantom Zone projector didn't work against the creatures. Usually, such a failure of the projector was explained by interference due to sunspot activity or the like, but here, it simply didn't work. It was also an amazing stroke of luck that the orange Giantite followed him back to Earth. Apparently, large planets under a red sun turn into a radioactive element deadly to life native to that planet, once the planet explodes. Silver Age science, I guess.
ReplyDeleteAs for Superman's costume, it was generally explained in the Silver Age, as you surmised, that Kryptonian material of any sort (metal, cloth, etc.), that left Krypton before it exploded (thus avoiding the transformation into kryptonite), would become indestructible under the influence of a yellow sun, but not under red solar radiation, as when Superman visited Kandor. I find it interesting that Superman was so fashion conscious that, even though he expected that Earth would be destroyed by the unstoppable creatures, and nothing he could do would stop that, he took the time during his trip back to Earth, to mend his costume. I guess if you expect to be the last living man on Earth, you might as well look good.
I thought "The Secret of Supergirl's Suitor" was a pretty strange story, even for the Silver Age. Throughout the story, he seemed a bit like a stalker, and even more so when his origin was revealed. And poor Jerro -- willing to undergo a dangerous operation to become more like a land-human, abandoning his home of Atlantis, all to be with Supergirl, only to be rejected in favor of a synthetic man. Granted, Supergirl (and therefore Jerro) didn't know that Al was a synthetic man at that point, but, still, ...