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Action Comics #112 Yes! It's Mr. Mxyztplk Again... Playing a Goofy Game With Superman in The Cross Country Chess Crimes
Cover Date: September, 1947
The Cross-Country Chess Crimes (Superman) -- 2. Little Moe -- 3. The Knife Thrower (Congo Bill) -- 4. Photo of a Phoney (Zatara) -- 5. Casey the Cop -- 6. The Practical Jokers (Hayfoot Henry) -- 7. The Vigilante's Double (Vigilante) Superman: Mr Mxz ...
Issue Description
The Cross-Country Chess Crimes (Superman) -- 2. Little Moe -- 3. The Knife Thrower (Congo Bill) -- 4. Photo of a Phoney (Zatara) -- 5. Casey the Cop -- 6. The Practical Jokers (Hayfoot Henry) -- 7. The Vigilante's Double (Vigilante)Mxyztplk takes Superman at his word, and kidnaps the two players contesting the world chess championship, depositing them on a cloud overlooking the USA. Then he steals objects such as a real castle in England, a statue of a queen in Paris and so on, and moves them to places in the USA so that the two players can use the entire nation as their chessboard.
Mxyztplk's chess pieces are causing havoc by being placed in the middle of cities and on roads, so Superman proposes that instead of disrupting the country, Mxyztplk should play chess with him in a remote location where they won't disturb anyone. Mxyztplk agrees, and returns the chess players to the ground while Superman flies round the world returning the giant chess pieces to their correct locations.
Superman then carves some new chess pieces and sets up a board in the Sahara desert, but he also includes a new chess piece not found in the original game. When Mxyztplk asks Superman what the piece is for, Superman tells him it's for a "surprise move" called the klptzyxm, which Mxyztplk repeats to himself, thus saying his name backwards and returning to the sixth dimension.
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.
