[Superman Fan Club] Presents: Challenge of the Super Fans: Season 2! Week 8 ACTION COMICS (1938-) #349

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Welcome to Week 8 of Season 2 of a very special challenge / contest , reading one single issue a week from the currently- digitized DC Universe Infinite collection of Silver and Bronze Age Superman and Family comic over an interesting space of time!

@Patterson65.37405 Apologies, I couldn’t find new Red Kryptonite stories you requested that we haven’t already read for the club yet, but I did find this kryptonite-related story in the Silver Age we haven’t discussed yet!

This time around: Silver Age!

ACTION COMICS (1938-) #349

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Story #1 “The Face of Fear” by Leo Dorfman, art by Wayne Boring

Story #2, “Supergirl’s Black Deeds” by Otto Binder, art by Jim Mooney. Cover by Curt Swan!

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Action Comics (1938-) #349

2 great Silver Age stories in one comic!

Q & A:

  1. The Face of Fear! How was that shocker ending for you???

  2. Supergirl’s Black Deeds!* Is this yet another weakness for the SuperFamily, should they be concerned?

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Could these possibly be the very best of the Silver Age? Hmmm…maybe not exactly…

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No problem. I did want to check this one out anyway, so thanks.

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The search for Red Kryptonite in the Silver and Bronze Ages continues!!!

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  1. The Face of Fear! How was that shocker ending for you???
    Aliens saving Superman wasn’t expecting that. I’m just wondering how Krypto survived K poisoning for so long.
  2. Supergirl’s Black Deeds!* Is this yet another weakness for the SuperFamily, should they be concerned?
    Yes from time to time they can be mind controlled, lucky they are not in the Marvel Universe with all those telepaths.
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Agreed. I’m a huge Krypto fan so, number one, I wasn’t too thrilled with how he’s drawn here, and number two, I was also sad at how helpless he was with that villain.

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Yes, he was drawn poorly, seemed more like a starving stray than a Super Dog.

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All that was missing was the foaming at the mouth.

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Another thing: we’ve seen stories in which someone from Krypton gets exposed extensively to Green Kryptonite, and as soon as their skin turns green, they are goners. As much of a fan of Krypto as I am, he should have been dead by the end of the story. It wasn’t fair of the writers to fudge the timeline in that way.

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Agreed

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What a way to … er …glow!

They definitely did Krypto dirty, but surprise endings for both.

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Yeah I think maybe they overdid the use of aliens for both.

Instead of deus ex machina it was alien ex machina

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All things considered, the Supergirl story was probably the best of the two.

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Agreed …and I’m a little late publishing this week’s challenge, I’ll have to get to that in a bit!

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