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Action Comics #107
Cover Date: April, 1947
Journey Into Ruin (Superman) -- Master of Magic (Congo Bill) -- Let It Rain (Zatara) -- Mister Grumble -- (Hayfoot Henry) -- Ride Him, Vigilante (Vigilante). On cover: Superman busts through a wall (way before Kool-Aid Man was even born) to get ...
Issue Description
Journey Into Ruin (Superman) --Master of Magic (Congo Bill) --
Let It Rain (Zatara) --
Mister Grumble --
(Hayfoot Henry) --
Ride Him, Vigilante (Vigilante).
On cover: Superman busts through a wall (way before Kool-Aid Man was even born) to get a crook with a bunch of loot.
1. 'Journey Into Ruin' starring Superman: As Clark is walking on a Metropolis street one day, he spots scam artist Wilbur Wolfingham trying to entice a cat to come to him. The cat doesn't trust Wilbur and climbs a pole. When Wilbur attempts to follow the cat up the pole, he slips and falls, so Superman has to save him. Eventually Wilbur succeeds in capturing the cat and walks off, leaving Superman mystified as to his motives. When Superman follows Wilbur back to his house, he sees four rich men and women arriving, carrying a stuffed cat in a glass jar...His patrons are impressed and agree to pay him the money. Wilbur leads them into a room with four beds and puts them to sleep with anaesthetic gas. Superman, who has been watching all this with his x-ray vision, realizes that the gas will put them to sleep only for 24 hours, and that Wilbur plans to take the money and disappear. Superman forces Wilbur to breathe his own gas and he falls asleep.
Meanwhile, Superman moves Wilbur's house to a remote location and at super-speed, builds a representation of Metropolis as it might appear in 25 years. When the 5 people awaken, Superman appears as a grey-haired old man, and takes them outside to show them a city fallen into ruin and decay. The reason, he tells them, is because everyone became enticed with the idea of going to sleep for years and awakening to collect a fortune from their savings. As a result, nobody was left to do any work and maintain society.
The four people realize that rewards cannot be obtained without effort and regret entering into the scheme in the first place, so Superman offers to return them to the present and give them a second chance to use their lives properly. They accept gladly and Superman demolishes the model city at super-speed, and returns the house to its original location. Even Wilbur promises to go straight, but Superman forces him to return the money he scammed off the four people and he faces an impoverished future.
Action Comics (1938)
- Publisher
- DC Comics
Volume Description
In the early days of comics books, it was not the convention to name comics after specific characters. Rather comics bore generic names such as this one. Although this series featured Superman throughout, it thus bore this name, one which it has become famous for (and the name was kept after the launch of The New 52.) It was the fourth DC Comics title, and the first new one produced after Detective Comics spread beyond the one title (this was after it purchased More Fun Comics and New Adventure Comics.)
Starring: Lex Luthor (starting #890) until #900.
Second Feature: Captain Atom (#879-#889), Superboy (#892), Jimmy Olsen (#893-#896)
(Issues #601-642 are filed under Action Comics Weekly)
Collected EditionsSuperman: The Golden Age Omnibus vol. 1 (#1-31)Adventures of Superman: Gil Kane vol. 1 (#539-541, 545, 546 & #551-554)Superman vs. Darkseid (#586)They Saved Luthor's Brain (#600, #668, #670-673, #676-678 )Panic in the Sky (#674-675)Death of Superman (#683-684)World Without Superman (#685-686)Superman: Funeral For A Friend (#685-686)Superman: Reign of the Supermen (#687-688)The Trial of Superman (#716-717)Transformed! (#729 & 732)DC Comics Presents: Superman #4 (#768, #771-773)Superman: Emperor Joker (#769-770)President Lex (#773)Superman: Our Worlds At War, Book One (#780-781)Superman: Our Worlds At War, Book Two (#782)Superman: Ending Battle (#795-796)DC Comics Presents: Superman #2 (#798)Godfall (Action Comics #812- 813, Adventures of Superman #625- 626 and Superman #202- 203)Superman: The Wrath of Gog (#814-819; backups #812-813)Superman: Sacrifice (Action Comics #829, Superman #218-220, Adventures of Superman #642-643 and Wonder Woman #219-220)Superman: Up, Up and Away! (#837-840)Superman: Back In Action (#841-843, plus stories from DC Comics Presents #4, #17 and #24)Superman: Last Son (#844-846, #851 and Action Comics Annual #11)The Third Kryptonian (Superman #668-670, Action Comics #847, Superman Annual #13)Redemption (Superman #659&666, Action Comics #848-849)3-2-1 Action (Superman #665, Action Comics #852-854, Legends of the DC Universe #14)Superman: Escape From Bizarro World (#855-857)Superman And The Legion of Super-Heroes (#858-863)Superman: Brainiac (#866-870)Superman: New Krypton Vol. 1 (#871)Superman: New Krypton Vol. 2 (#872-873)Superman: Nightwing And Flamebird Vol. 1 (#875-879 and Action Comics Annual #12)Superman: Codename Patriot (#880)Superman: Nightwing And Flamebird Vol. 2 (#883-889, Superman #696 and Adventure Comics #8-10)Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 1 (#890-895)Superman: The Black Ring Vol. 2 (#896-900; Action Comics Annual #13; Secret Six #29)Secret Six: Caution To the Wind (#897)Superman: Reign of Doomsday (#900-904)For Post-Flashpoint refer to Action Comics (Vol. 2)Please first Sign In before leaving a review.
