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Action Comics #111 Up, Up and Away- With Superman in a Truly Startling Story- Cameras in the Clouds
Cover Date: August, 1947
Cameras in the Clouds! (Superman) -- 2. The Quest for Life! (Congo Bill) -- 3. Twin Magic (Zatara) -- 4. Tiny -- 5. Who's Zoo? (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. Pop Gunn Shoots the Works! (Vigilante) Superman: The story opens with two army cameramen filming a b ...
Issue Description
Cameras in the Clouds! (Superman) -- 2. The Quest for Life! (Congo Bill) -- 3. Twin Magic (Zatara) -- 4. Tiny -- 5. Who's Zoo? (Hayfoot Henry) -- 6. Pop Gunn Shoots the Works! (Vigilante)The FBI takes an interest, and the two cameramen disclose their secret to them (but not yet to the reader). As they are leaving the FBI building, Clark intercepts them for an interview, but as they are talking on the street, a truck hired by the newsreel company pulls up and kidnaps all three of them. The kidnappers try to force them to disclose their secret but Clark manages to lift the truck off the ground from the inside by pretending to put his hands up when threatened with a gun. Clark lands the truck in the middle of a police parade, and the kidnappers are captured.
The next day, Superman is giving Lois a flight to work, when Lois notices a blimp in the sky advertising a perfume that doesn't exist. Superman and Lois pay the blimp a visit and discover the GI newsmen inside, where their secret of getting scoops is revealed. They use the blimp to visit places where news is breaking, and film the news from above using a telescope. Realizing they can't keep the secret forever, they allow Lois to write up a story on them in the Planet.
When the newsreel company reads about their method, they try to sabotage the GIs by getting their film supplier to sell them blank film. Unsuspecting, the GIs use this dud film to film Superman putting out an oil well fire. When they discover the film is useless, Superman refilms it by flying faster than light to overtake the light rays from the story, and then filming the story again from outer space using a telescope he built at super-speed.
The newsreel company makes one last try to get a scoop by blowing up a statue in a Metropolis park that the police were going to remove later anyway. Superman tells the GIs to film the company planting the charges themselves, without ensuring the safety of the public, and when this is revealed to the cinemas they refuse to do business with an irresponsible newsreel company.
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.
