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Action Comics, Vol. 1 #367

Action Comics, Vol. 1

#367

Mysteries Of The Superman Awards! / The Evil Of Alpha And Beta!

Mysteries Of The Superman Awards!
Superman attends an award ceremony in which worthy people receive an achievement award for helping the Man of Steel. This year's winner is Clark Kent, but Superman and Clark cannot appear together. While Lois looks for Clark, Superman tries to dream up a way to cover his secret identity. His robots are unable to respond because his apartment is being painted, and Bruce Wayne is attending the ceremony too, so Batman can't fill in for Clark. While Superman thinks of a solution, the commissioner tells the audience the stories of the past three award winners which include a baby who disabled a scientist's prediction machine, a hermit who saved Superman from the Revenge Squad, and a forest ranger who died while saving Superman from Kryptonite, then donated his heart to save another life. Finally Superman solves his dual identity problem by hypnotizing an amnesia victim. The man substitutes for Clark and receives the award. Superman then helps the man recover his memory, though he doesn't retain any memories of being Clark Kent.

The Evil Of Alpha And Beta!
Supergirl exposes herself to Gold Kryptonite in hopes of destroying her powers, thus preventing the bomb at Stanhope from detecting them and detonating. Then she assumes her Linda Danvers identity, and tricks Alpha and Beta into letting her inside the barrier. The two female terrorists put her to work in a lab assisting David Carew, whom they have captured. Carew tells Linda that Alpha and Beta have told him he is destined in the future to create Noricon, a vaccine against all diseases, so they are forcing him to try and discover it now. Linda spurs Carew into creating a diversion that allows them to escape the lab. When David sees the Linda Danvers robot, Linda changes to her Supergirl costume, revealing her double identity and her plans to him. They head for the bomb, intending to dismantle it, but Alpha and Beta deduce their destination and come after them. Meanwhile, Superman wonders why Supergirl has not kept an appointment to meet him at the Fortress of Solitude. Seeing her plight with his super-vision, he flies to Stanhope and intends to crash through the barrier. Supergirl shouts a warning to her cousin, but he is moving too fast to stop himself in time.


Creators View all

Writer Otto Binder, Cary Bates
Cover Artist Neal Adams
Penciller Kurt Schaffenberger, Curt Swan
Inker George Klein, Kurt Schaffenberger
Letterer Ben Oda
Editor Mort Weisinger

Characters View all

Superman Kal-El / Clark Kent
Lois Lane
Bruce Wayne
Supergirl Linda Danvers / Kara Zor-EL
Alpha
David Carew
Beta-Zin
Mr. Pyle (Flashback)
Superman Revenge Squad (Flashback)
Ron (Flashback)
Jonas Crowther

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Added Date Sep 30, 2019 14:56:24
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Gift of Jack Sword.