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Action Comics #427 Superman Story Notes: In this story, we see Superman fly to "Nix Olympica" on Mars. This was before it was named Olympus Mons. A narrative caption mentions that its height was measured by the Mariner 9 probe, although in the comic it doesn't look anything like it does in...

Action Comics #425 Superman Story Notes: - The extinct Moa bird (specifically the North Island Giant Moa) is an important plot point in this story, although it is referred to in the comic as Dinornis Maximus, rather than its correct scientific name, Dinornis novaezealandiae. The name could...

Eh, I don't put a lot of stock in statements like that, since there's a lot of hyperbole and inconsistency about them.

Tell me when you get to Juggernaut.

Action Comics #424 Part 2 Green Arrow Story Notes: - Green Arrow changes into his costume in a phone booth in this issue, claiming he got the idea from hearing that Superman did it, although he doesn't know if that's actually true or just a rumor Feat Catalogue: Intercepts and cuts a...

Action Comics #423 Superman Story Notes: - Despite what my notes on issue #419 said, there is a special feature in this issue showing a photo of several astronomers reading Action Comics #419, and saying that the Large Space Telescope featured in it was actually built by them. But I couldn't...

Action Comics #421 Superman Story Notes: - First appearance of Horatio Strong, aka Captain Strong, a slightly more serious expy of Popeye the Sailor. He's a human who eats an alien plant (a stand-in for spinach) that temporarily imbues him with superhuman physical abilities comparable to...

I know a lot of series where superhumans play sports and get feats from it... does no one hit a ball into orbit or something?

Yes and some people even say that something is not multiversal unless it can affect an infinite multiverse... but it would probably be good to just set up tiers of multiversal.

Action Comics #419 Overall Notes: - As of this issue, the Metamorpho stories are replaced with stories featuring a character known as the Human Target. He's not really a very relevant character, at least IMO, so I won't be covering his stories (apologies to any fans he may have) Superman...

Action Comics #418 Part 2 Metamorpho Story Notes: - Simon Stagg's estate (or at least, the majority of it) was valued at $80 million. That's over $600 million in today's money. He also left another million to Rex. Feat Catalogue: Goes all the way to Greenland using his powers and no...

Action Comics #417 Superman Story Notes: This is another cover that, I believe, was featured on Superdickery, again for obvious reasons This is the first part of a two-part story We see the return of Grax, from issue #342. This storyline (which continues into the next issue) is his final...

Those words are used in various fictional stories and in various forums to mean different things, so I'd suggest something less likely to cause confusion.

Action Comics #416 Part 2 Metamorpho Story Notes: - This story features a meeting between the US President and an "Asiatic Premier" (the country is not specified). At the time of publication, the President was Richard Nixon, and the wiki speculates that the Premier was the USSR's Leonid...

Action Comics #415 Superman Story Notes: Feat Catalogue: When his coworkers are trying to break into his office, he changes his clothes at super speed, then flies out of the window and back into the building from another window, all so fast no one can see him Superman is stated to have an...

Action Comics #413 Overall Notes: A response in the letters column confirms that the writers were wrong when they said that Superman can't break the Fortress door without help The letters column also mentions a Golden Age hero known as Quicksilver. This character was later renamed to Max...

That queen looks sort of like Rita/Bandora.

Action Comics #411 Superman Story Notes: We see a rough map of the area around Superman's Fortress of Solitude, which could possibly help us pinpoint its location, if we ever need to for some reason There's a vault in the Fortress where the secret identities of most of Earth's heroes are...

Action Comics #409 Superman Story Notes: Feat Catalogue: Easily withstands being accelerated at 10 Gs (As his subconscious evil personality) sabotages an elevator by attaching rocket boosters to it that blast it right out of a building and miles into the sky when someone tries to use it Has...

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