Unofficial Action Comics Index |
ACTION COMICS #329
Cover Date: October 1965
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1965-08-26
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Sheldon Moldoff
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Credits:
Story | Edmond Hamilton |
Art | Al Plastino |
Lettering | Joe Letterese |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #88/3; next in Superman Vol. 1 #181; also in flashback as baby Kal-El on Krypton, in between flashbacks in World's Finest Comics #149 and #156 and flashback as Superboy, in between the flashback in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #60/3 and Adventure Comics #337)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #88/3; next in Superman Vol. 1 #181)
- Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #88/3; next in Superman Vol. 1 #181)
- Jor-El in flashback; last in Superman Vol. 1 #173/2, (Page 1, panels 2-3); next in flashback in More Fun Comics #101/3 (page 2, panel 3 to page 3, panel 2)
Villain(s):
- Jon Smatten (first appearance; a renegade scientist; also in flashbacks battling Superboy and Superman)
- a robot knight (first appearance; made out of Kryptium and created by Joe Smatten, "Krypton's strongest metal;" destroyed)
Other Character(s):
- Hab-Rull (first appearance; in flashback; a Kryptonian scientist; presumably dies when his laboratory explodes into space)
- citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2813
- Krypton (in flashback)
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Fortress of Solitude
- Metropolis
- Smallville (in flashback)
- Earth
Comment(s):
- First appearance of the Super-Sword of Krypton.
Credits:
Story | Leo Dorfman |
Art | Jim Mooney |
Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Supergirl (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #61/2; next in issue #330/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Dick Malverne (last/next in ???)
Villain(s):
- Drang the Destroyer (first appearance; also in flashback)
- Circle of Evil (first appearance)
- Kirol (first appearance; Lord if the council)
- Fantasta (first appearance; an applicant to the Circle; dies)
- Varr (first appearance; joins the Circle for killing Sulman, defender of the Tork Galaxy)
- Vintan (first appearance; an applicant to the Circle; dies)
- Execution birds (first appearance; Gnomo named)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Unidentified Space Sector(s)
- Cyclon (first mentioned)
- Gotha (first appearance)
- Purple Planet (first appearance)
Comment(s):
- This story is continued in the next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2018)