Endless Mike
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Action Comics #375
Superman Story
Overall Notes:
- There's a one - page feature in this issue recapping the history of the somewhat obscure character Sargon the Sorcerer. Interestingly, it directly names the Golden Age of comics, showing that such a distinction was a thing even back then in the Silver Age.
Notes:
Feat Catalogue:
Weirdness:
Superdickery:
Power Tracker:
- Once again, he's still High Herald Level.
Supergirl Story
Notes:
Feat Catalogue:
Weirdness:
- One student asks the question "Professor, could you demonstrate the trajectory of a satellite from Earth orbiting through the rings of Saturn?" This makes no sense. Anything that passes through Saturn's rings would be too far away from Earth to be a satellite of it, instead it would be a satellite of Saturn. You could assume she meant a man-made space probe, but that also wouldn't be called a "satellite" once it left Earth orbit.
Superdickery:
- Supergirl is inadvertently responsible for a woman going blind
Power Tracker:
- High Herald Level, still
Action Comics #376
Overall Notes:
- There's an interesting feature in this issue that covers various non-comic book adaptations of DC characters that had been released at the time. It has too much fascinating stuff in it to mention it all in the notes, so I scanned it, if you want to read it.
Superman Story
Notes:
Feat Catalogue:
Weirdness:
Superdickery:
- Juggles a caged lion as part of a performance. That's animal abuse again.
Power Tracker:
- He struggled a bit to lift the neutronium out of the core of the white dwarf star, so that could be considered a low-end compared to many of his other strength feats. It could have also had something to do with the white dwarf star not empowering him like a yellow sun, maybe? Either way it's not enough to take away his High Herald Level status.
Supergirl Story
Notes:
- Continuation of the story from the previous issue
Feat Catalogue:
Weirdness:
Superdickery:
Power Tracker:
- Again, High Herald Level.
Superman Story
Overall Notes:
- There's a one - page feature in this issue recapping the history of the somewhat obscure character Sargon the Sorcerer. Interestingly, it directly names the Golden Age of comics, showing that such a distinction was a thing even back then in the Silver Age.
Notes:
- Continuation and conclusion of the story arc where he lost the memory of his Clark Kent identity
- Clark Kent's address is shown in this issue to be "E-76-125 APT. 51" (as close as I can tell, it's kind of hard to make out)
- Batman is one of the few people who knows the precise location of the Fortress of Solitude
- A response in the letters column has a reader point out the same error that I did in issue #369, regarding Mount Chimborazo
Feat Catalogue:
- Looks over all of the photo files at the Missing Persons Bureau at super speed to see that none of them look like him
- A memory deep in his subconscious causes him to dress just like he did as Clark Kent, despite supposedly losing his memories of that life
- KOs his imposter at super speed with a light tap, before he can react, then uses a nerve pinch to make him stay unconscious longer
- Uses super ventriloquism to broadcast his voice from an FBI radio while on a blimp controlled by criminals (the criminals don't hear anything)
- Flies out of the blimp at super speed, catches all of the stolen goods the criminals dropped to try to hide their crimes, and returns them to the blimp, all too fast to be seen, and so quickly nobody notices he left
- Apparently having also lost his memory of Batman's secret identity, he uses his x-ray vision to locate the Batcave


Weirdness:
- Funny line of dialogue/thought: "No... robots don't smoke! And there are cigarette butts in that ashtray!" Obviously, he's never seen Futurama.
- Some criminals fly into the sky by releasing compressed helium into giant balloons hidden on their persons
- Another weird line of dialogue/thought, upon seeing that the criminal mastermind he's after is a woman: "Great galaxies! He's a... I mean... she's a girl!"
- Batman has a part of his cave dedicated to "Superman souvenirs", including a calendar from Bizarro World (how'd he get that?) that shows February having 31 days (and it's backwards)
- In the Fortress, there is a sample of "amnesium metal", which can wipe out the memories of non-super beings. But there's also a sample of Bizarro amnesium, which can restore the memories of super beings, which he uses to regain his memory.
Superdickery:
Power Tracker:
- Once again, he's still High Herald Level.
Supergirl Story
Notes:
- This story is continued in the next issue
- In this story, it's stated that the distance from the sun to the center of the galaxy is approximately 8200 parsecs, and a parsec is about 19.2 trillion miles. These values are actually fairly accurate.
Feat Catalogue:
- Builds a mobile "fully equipped space observatory", with "the most advanced space instruments from Superman's Fortress" to carry an astronomer into space so she can observe a nebula
- Flies the astronomer in the observatory "far across the deeps of space" to the nebula, then orbits it (it was stated to be 'engulfing all the stars in an entire sky sector' so this would certainly be an orbit of many light-years)
- Flies the astronomer in the observatory back to Earth
- Donated a model of the solar system using anti-gravity technology to Stanhope college (probably made from the Fortress technology)
- Uses a precise application of super breath to fog a woman's glasses from a distance

Weirdness:
- One student asks the question "Professor, could you demonstrate the trajectory of a satellite from Earth orbiting through the rings of Saturn?" This makes no sense. Anything that passes through Saturn's rings would be too far away from Earth to be a satellite of it, instead it would be a satellite of Saturn. You could assume she meant a man-made space probe, but that also wouldn't be called a "satellite" once it left Earth orbit.
Superdickery:
- Supergirl is inadvertently responsible for a woman going blind
Power Tracker:
- High Herald Level, still
Action Comics #376
Overall Notes:
- There's an interesting feature in this issue that covers various non-comic book adaptations of DC characters that had been released at the time. It has too much fascinating stuff in it to mention it all in the notes, so I scanned it, if you want to read it.

Superman Story
Notes:
- This is the beginning of another multi-part story
- The premise of this issue is very similar to that of issue #123, with various criminals competing to try to come up with ways to kill Superman
- The radiation from Green Kryptonite actually has an effect on something non-Kryptonian in this issue, shorting out the stabilizing controls of a space capsule. I think this is the first time we've seen something like this.
- The cover of this issue is very deceptive. It claims there is a substance as common as coal that is deadly to Superman, and shows him recoiling in fear from a box of it. It turns out that substance was glass, and it was only deadly to him in this particular situation because the lead suit that was protecting him from Green Kryptonite was transmuted into it
Feat Catalogue:
- Superman's invulnerability causes an attempt to teleport a bullet into his head to fail, as it can't materialize inside his body, so it bounces off his skin instead
- Flies to a white dwarf star and extracts several handfulls of neutronium from its core, carries them back into space, and uses them for earplugs, then flies back to Earth
- Throws the neutronium earplugs out into space when he no longer needs them
- Both Superman and his costume (his real one) are unaffected by a shrinking gas
- Brought a giant monitor screen to Metropolis square and used it to show an interplanetary broadcast
- Carries boxes of fireworks into space and ignites them with heat vision







Weirdness:
- A criminal scientist invents a teleporter ray with unlimited range, that can materialize solid objects inside of others. Instead of just patenting this and getting rich, he tries to use it to kill Superman, so he can commit more robberies without being foiled.
- Another scientist tried to create a miniature red sun (which he could hold with a pair of pliers somehow), but it exploded in his face. He later created a siren that broadcasted hypersonic frequencies that covered the entire planet Earth to try to drive Superman crazy, as normal people couldn't hear them
- Superman has a "vacuum helmet" in the Fortress of Solitude, which he can wear to surround his head with a bubble of vacuum. Obviously this doesn't harm him, but what is the point of this thing? In this case, he used it to block out a sound, but against a normal person this seems more like a cruel execution device.
- Yet another scientist invents a shrinking spray.
- Earth was made an honorary member of an interplanetary organization called the "United Worlds". To celebrate, they launched a space capsule carrying a banner with a flag with a picture of Earth on it
- A fourth scientist invented a transmutation ray that could change lead into glass, and had a range that could extend up to orbit and target a human-sized moving object.
Superdickery:
- Juggles a caged lion as part of a performance. That's animal abuse again.
Power Tracker:
- He struggled a bit to lift the neutronium out of the core of the white dwarf star, so that could be considered a low-end compared to many of his other strength feats. It could have also had something to do with the white dwarf star not empowering him like a yellow sun, maybe? Either way it's not enough to take away his High Herald Level status.
Supergirl Story
Notes:
- Continuation of the story from the previous issue
Feat Catalogue:
- It's confirmed in this issue that Supergirl built the anti-gravity model of the solar system seen in the previous issue
- Uses "mental super-energy" to overload the circuits of a device designed to drain all of her knowledge into an alien computer databank. The aliens had apparently previously absorbed the scientific knowledge of "half a universe" without issue.
- No-sells blasts from alien "death rays" and "shock guns"
- Flies back from the alien planet to Earth, carrying kidnapped scientists back with her in rockets



Weirdness:
- In a flashback to the previous issue, we see the student say that he asked the professor to "demonstrate the trajectory of a space vehicle orbiting Saturn", no longer using the word "satellite". It's almost as if they traveled forward and then back through time to read my criticism and correct it.
- We see a scene set in an African jungle, with some very stereotypical - looking, loincoth-wearing natives
- Some aliens planned and modified the construction of a "World Science Center" building on Earth, which was actually a rocket designed to help them kidnap all of Earth's greatest scientists and steal their knowledge. It was also built on the Stanhope college campus, for some reason
Superdickery:
Power Tracker:
- Again, High Herald Level.