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Action Comics #399 Superman Story Notes: Feat Catalogue: Superman flies into an "experimental solar power generator" where he is hit with force that he describes as "like fighting the power of 1000 atom bombs". He's unharmed by it, but is soon drawn through time and dimensions by another force. Uses x-ray vision to see through a 24th century "refractive force shield" that supposedly stops anyone inside it from seeing outwards Fires x-ray vision through the force shield to disable its control mechanism, weakening the forcefield and allowing him to break out without hurting the others around him Flies in split seconds from a building somewhere in future America (implied, at least) to the ice under Greenland. Smashes the ice to reveal a lost civilization underground After returning to the past, flies the solar furnace into space where its energy is dispersed harmlessly, then returns to Earth, unharmed Uses microscopic vision to determine that a medallion from the future is made...

Action Comics #397 Superman Story Notes: - Continuation of the Imaginary Story from the previous issue Feat Catalogue: - Again, this is a non-canon Imaginary Story, so no relevant feats Weirdness: - In the unimaginably distant future of the 1990s, we again see such things as: 'hover-cabs' various other hovering vehicles, including motorcycles and buses (the latter of which look like giant glass tubes) an 'automated welder' that instantly fixes damaged buildings 'cryogenic rays' that can freeze flood waters before they inundate a town a 'self-decontaminating chemical' that transforms atmospheric pollution into gemstones that rain from the sky a chemical spray of 'instant fertilizer' that makes plants grow to full size in seconds helicopters that deploy 'walls of fireproof foam' to stop fires from spreading Superdickery: After losing most of his powers and going broke, he refuses to apply for welfare or ask any of his friends for help, due to his own ego. After a doctor...

If it happened off-panel, Squirrel Girl probably did it. :maybe

What comic did he get the Destroyer armor in?

Action Comics #395 Notes: - There's an ad in this issue for Jack Kirby's then - upcoming New Gods and Forever People series. Awesome. Feat Catalogue: We see a flashback of how Superman first built his Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic We see a tour/layout of the Fortress, including the alien zoo, "security weapons", space communications room, robot storage room, Kandor, "secret identity vaults", super-weapon armory, "super-lab and workshop", super-computer (I thought he had more than one of those), trophy room, Krypton memorial room, and "friendship galleries" (with sections dedicated to Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane, Perry White, Lana Lang, and Clark Kent) Using Kryptonian technology, he can apparently create "memory tapes" to record his memories and let him replay them with perfect fidelity (but I thought he already had a perfect photographic memory?) While heading back to Earth from a mission in deep space, he made a detour to a remote jungle planet because he spotted a wrecked...

Action Comics #393 Superman Story Notes: This story featured the "Star of Asia", supposedly the world's largest diamond. There actually is a "Star of Asia" in real life, but it's a sapphire, not a diamond. The actual largest gem-quality diamond in the world is the Cullinan Diamond. At the end of this story, there is a narration bubble simply saying "Kirby is Coming". I'm not exactly sure, but this may have been an announcement that Jack Kirby was returning to work for DC, as that happened around this time, shortly before he created the New Gods. Don't get your hopes up for seeing Darkseid in this thread any time soon, though. Feat Catalogue: Uses super hearing to detect a "supersonic signal beam" from a stopwatch in a stuntman's outfit, then uses X-ray vision to figure out how the escape mechanism works, in the split second before he uses it Uses heat vision to weld a suit of armor shut around him, then uses it again to get out, all without making it look like the armor was...

Is this particular Sentai series set/focused mostly on Earth, or does it also include space travel? That could be useful to determine whether that description implies the dimension is the size of the Earth or the universe.

It really depends. In the standard fictional usage meaning a different spacetime, it's usually considered smaller than a universe, but it can be that size or larger, or it could also be much smaller. If there's no statement about how large it is, your best bet is probably to use the visuals to find a minimum size.

It's good to clarify and correct false information like that which gets circulated on the internet, like I did for that Psi-Lord Big Bang feat in my Fantastic Four thread.

Is that a good series to watch? The only Sentai I've watched all the way through was Gokaiger.

Which series is he from? Or is it one of the movies?

Who would you say is the single most powerful character in the entire franchise?

Probably not. Especially since as time goes on, I've been considering this stuff more and more pointless to try to quantify. I have my own tiering system but I even admit that it gets vague once you get past Herald Level, and lots of others have contradicting systems. There is no single system that can work for all of fiction, I'm certain.

Action Comics #391 Superman Story Notes: Another one of those "imaginary stories", later retconned to take place on a parallel world. First part of a multi-part story I think this cover was also featured on Superdickery. We see a "Hall of Ancestors" in the Fortress of Solitude, showing some of Superman's ancestors, although it's unknown if these are canon for the Earth-1 version. A response in the letters column says that Superman didn't continue to age as he traveled forward through time after he stopped using the defective time bubble in issue #385. Feat Catalogue: - As this is an imaginary/alternate universe story, the feats here aren't canon and don't really apply to the Earth-1 versions of the characters Weirdness: The premise of this story is that Batman and Superman both have teenage sons. We see the mother of Superman's son, but she isn't named, and doesn't even have her face shown. Batman and Superman live in two large homes connected to each other at the midway...

Action Comics #389 Superman Story Notes: The opening narration says "Everyone knows that Superman is the strongest, fastest, most superbly conditioned being on all the Earth!" The Flash and several others would probably have something to say about that... Apparently Metropolis has a baseball team known as the Majestics A group called the Intergalactic Police, or "Galactopol" for short, are mentioned in this story This issue also features a few pages showing Superman's rogues gallery, including several villains we haven't seen for a while like the Toyman, the Puzzler, and the Prankster Feat Catalogue: Zooms into a stadium during baseball practice and catches a ball shortly after it was thrown When trying to hit a baseball with a bat, he swings it so fast that the ball makes a hole through the bat (very questionable physics here) Using a bronze bat, hits a baseball so fast into the sky that it catches on fire from air friction Outmaneuvers and defeats a professional British...

Very underrated and broken character... one of my favorites.

Action Comics #388 Notes: This issue was made to be as intentionally weird as possible (see Weirdness section) We see "the latest Apollo mission" landing on the moon, but it's not made clear which one it is. Going by the publication date of the comic, it was probably meant to be either Apollo 12, or the then-upcoming Apollo 14. A response in the letters column says that the iceberg near Metropolis in issue #384 was created by the Flash villain Captain Cold. This is probably just a joke, though. Feat Catalogue: Blitzes the duplicate Mxy, moving him so fast he doesn't realize what is happening He was off visiting another galaxy, which is why he wasn't on Earth when it was duplicated Creates and polishes a giant mirror (not stated what materials he used, though) Creates a duplicate of the duplicator ray and uses it to return Earth to the proper dimension, sending the duplicate Earth back to that other dimension. Weirdness: Some scientist created a weird duplicate Earth...

Action Comics #387 Superman Story Notes: Continuation and conclusion of the story from the previous issues I had seen scans of some of the feats from this issue in respect threads before, but I had always assumed, due to lack of context, that they were from some alternate future timeline (due to the aged Superman) and thus not canon. However, if you've been following the story of the last few issues, you'll see that this is indeed the same Superman we've been following, and even though this timeline is eventually undone at the end of the issue (maybe, it's kind of unclear), these feats are still applicable to him. Back in issue #300, Superman also traveled to Earth a million years in the future, but there was still some life there, as opposed to this issue where it's entirely dead. I guess that was a different future timeline, which does make sense since time travel and reality warping is constantly shifting these things around. A response in the letters column clarifies that...

Action Comics #385 Superman Story Notes: Part 1 of a multi-part story The intro text says "Superman is the most powerful being on Earth"... even at this point, that is definitely arguable We get another appearance of the POTUS, although his face isn't shown (it would have been Richard Nixon at this point) First appearance of the Time Trapper in this title, who is normally a Legion of Super Heroes villain (and an extremely powerful one, at that) A future treasury holds an equivalent of 50 trillion dollars in 1970 US currency. That would be almost 400 trillion dollars today. Feat Catalogue: An alarm system on the Fortress of Solitude actually works for once, as it goes off to send an ultrasonic signal to alert Superman when an energy beam starts cutting through the door Uses microscopic vision to determine that a robot hand is made of a metal alloy that hasn't been discovered in the current time He is also able to determine that the letters carved by the energy beam on the...

Action Comics #383 Superman Story Notes: - First part of a multi-part story Feat Catalogue: Uses a combo of heat vision and ice breath to disintegrate a falling satellite and freeze and preserve its data recorder simultaneusly Scans every square inch of an area in Metropolis to find a pickpocket (he only fails because the guy was disintegrated) Notices a guy's heartbeat increase out of nervousness with super hearing Uses X-ray vision to quickly scan all the documents in a file cabinet, looking for criminal evidence (but doesn't find any) Is hit by a "death-touch" that knocks him back but doesn't hurt him due to his invulnerability. The same ability was previously shown to make a desk fade away into nonexistence. Weirdness: - Ready for another crazy premise? An alien criminal is being transported through space on a prison ship, piloted by a single alien cop. The ship accidentally flies into the tail of a radioactive comet, and the radiation is so lethal that it...