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| Action Comics 333, February 1966! |
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ACTION COMICS 333, February 1966, was published on December 23, 1965. It contained 32 pages for the cover price of 12¢. Mort Weisinger was the editor, and the cover was pencilled by Curt Swan. According to Mike's Amazing World Of DC Comics George Klein was the inker, while the Grand Comic Book Database credits Sheldon Moldoff as the inker. Ira Schnapp was the letterer. I remember seeing this cover in ads that appeared in some of the DC Comics I read back then.
- (3:47) I review MARIE SEVERIN: MIRTHFUL MISTRESS OF COMICS, written by Dewey Cassell with Aaron Sultan. This 176 page book was published by Tomorrows Publishing in 2012.
- (7:32) SUPERMAN'S SUPER-BOO-BOO (13 pgs.), written by Leo Dorfman and drawn by Al Plastino.
- (28:11) THE DUEL BETWEEN SUPERWOMAN AND SUPERBOY (12 pgs.), written by Leo Dorfman and drawn by Jim Mooney. According to the Grand Comic Book Database Joe Letterese was the letterer on the first page, but the letterer on the remaining pages is unknown.
- (48:39) 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 FEBRUARY 1966: PART IV: SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE 63 & ELSEWHERE IN DC COMICS, featuring the other DC titles which carried the February or February/March 1966 cover date!
Then we will cover: SUPERMAN FAMILY COMIC BOOKS COVER DATED MARCH 1966: PART I: SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN 91, PART II: ACTION COMICS 334 (80 Pg. Giant), PART III: WORLD'S FINEST COMICS 156 & PART IV: ACTION COMICS 355 & ELSEWHERE IN DC COMICS!
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"Superman's Super Boo-Boos" is, first of all, a hilarious title. They were definitely writing for a young audience there. I was interested, after the previous month's "The Super-Revenge of Lex Luthor", to see how Luthor's revenge would develop. It was a good idea on Lex's part to attack Superman psychologically, since he's most "human", rather than "super" in that regard, but this month's chapter of the story has Lex being too clever by half, as my Mom would have said. His plan seems needlessly complicated, and I'm sure, somehow, that will lead to his downfall. Somewhere along the line, Superman will notice something that exposes what Lex is up to, and my guess is that he will somehow turn the tables on Lex. I think, though, that it's taking too long, especially in the Silver Age, long before the age of decompressed storytelling. Of course, that's just my opinion, and there were probably fans in those days who liked these multi-part stories. I often did, myself, but two parts was generally the norm (as in the Superwoman two-parter concluding in this issue). I'm hoping I will get a satisfying conclusion in the next installment.
ReplyDeleteI think "The Duel Between Superwoman and Superboy" is, for my money, the better story in this issue. It was almost chilling to see how bad this version of Superboy was, with no regard for anyone but himself. It was also a bit chilling to see the Superwoman robots take matters into their own hands, going after Superboy with Gold K even knowing that this was not something Superwoman herself would do. Bad robots! Bad! At the conclusion, I'd hope Superwoman would continue to monitor her younger cousin, even without his super powers, because it's certainly possible that his true bad nature could re-emerge and he might be as big a thorn in her side as Luthor is to Superman.
In regards to Lex Luthor, it wouldn't be a silver age super-villain plot if it wasn't over complicated. I didn't think about it until after your comment about the Supergirl story in this issue, but the Superboy story in this issue was a lot like the Superboy in the mini-series Final Crisis.
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