[Superman Fan Club] and friends, behold! The second reading in September, in perhaps a prelude to a new Red Kryptonite Club……. we present to you : Superman Under a Red Sun, Supergirl with Red Kryptonite in Her Veins…AND MORE Silver / Bronze Age Madness / Fun!!! (and we again stop by to visit with Lois and Jimmy).
ACTION COMICS (1938-) #320 - 321 (released January and February 1965)
Click for Action #320 3 Super Enemies “THE THREE SUPER-ENEMIES!” Clark Kent summons Hercules, Samson and Atlas to help save Metropolis in an emergency when he is otherwise occupied but does not suspect that he has summoned the evil counterparts of these heroes from a parallel Earth.
(The above look at all familiar, All-Star Superman fans???)
Click for Action #321 Superman: Weakest Man! “SUPERMAN–WEAKEST MAN IN THE WORLD!” Superman is stranded by super-villains on a red-sun world where he has no powers…but the inhabitants do!
…Plus, “THE ENEMY SUPERGIRL!” Linda Danvers uses red Kryptonite to produce vulnerability in her arm so that she can donate blood.
Superman (1939-) #257 (released October 1972) Click for Superman #257 War-Horn “SUPERMAN BATTLES THE WAR-HORN!” Superman faces a new alien menace who has come to Earth for the sole purpose of stealing all of its nitrogen!
SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE (1958-1973) #3 (released May 1958) Lois Lane 1958 #3 "THE RAINBOW SUPERMAN.” Superman smashes a crystalline meteor in space, but when he returns to Earth, he begins to glow with a rainbow aura, and for some reason it happens every time Lois opens her mirror locket.
SUPERMAN’S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN (1954-) #3 (released January 1955) Jimmy Olsen #3 1,000,000 Jimmy Olsen is given $1,000,000 by a wealthy widow for saving her cat. Anthony “Slick” Slade tries to steal the money.
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