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Action Comics #120 You Can't Imagine What Happens When Superman Becomes Super Stuntman!
Cover Date: May, 1948
Superman, Stunt Man! -- 2. High-Water Peril! (Congo Bill) -- 3. Cabbie Casey -- 4. The Animated Antiques! (Zatara) -- 5. The Horse Nobody Could Ride! (Vigilante) -- 6. Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado -- 7. Homer Superman: Eccentric movie producer ...
Issue Description
Superman, Stunt Man! -- 2. High-Water Peril! (Congo Bill) -- 3. Cabbie Casey -- 4. The Animated Antiques! (Zatara) -- 5. The Horse Nobody Could Ride! (Vigilante) -- 6. Captain Tootsie Tames a Tornado -- 7. HomerSuperman: Eccentric movie producer Mike Foss wants to make a movie with 'stupendiferous' stunts in it so he is determined to hire Superman. That evening, when Superman shows up at a charity event he is besieged by autograph hunters, and signs dozens of autographs at super-speed. What Superman doesn't notice, however, is that one of the crowd is Foss who got Superman to sign a contract to produce three movies for him.
Unhappy at being tricked, Superman is determined to fulfill his contract but in a way that does Foss no good. His first stunt is to jump between two aircraft in flight, which he does at super-speed so the camera doesn't see him.
Angered by this, Foss is determined that Superman's next stunt will be recorded on film. He gets Superman to swim up Niagara Falls, but he must take 10 minutes to do it so the camera can record him. Superman does this by spinning rapidly as he swims up, so that he heats the water and produces so much steam that he is hidden in the fog.
Foiled again, Foss devises a final scene in which he believes Superman can't hide: he is to film a love scene with current movie bombshell Lydia Heartache. The scene seems to go flawlessly, but when Foss views the film, he finds it is fogged, as Superman used his X-ray vision to overexpose the picture.
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.
