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Action Comics vol.1 #47 - Cover date...
Action Comics vol.1 #47 - Cover date April 1942
Luthor – seemingly now befanged – returns in one of his most pivotal golden age appearances, in pursuit of the POWERSTONE, a strange gem which is capable of bestowing on its owner strength greater than even that of Superman! In the course of the story, Luthor embarks on one of his most ambitious schemes, capturing Metropolis’ most corrupt, power-mad and greedy tycoons in one fell swoop and ransoming their lives.
Comic stories which continued between magazines was a rarity in the Golden Age, and generally were limited to single titles – the well-known Fawcett comics examples, for instance, happened entirely either within the pages of Whiz (Captain Marvel vs Spy Smasher) and Captain Marvel Adventures (the multi-part epic Captain Marvel vs The Monster Society of Evil), and Timely’s famous battle between the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner took place over two issues of Marvel Mystery. The battle between Luthor and Superman over the Powerstone, however, begins here in Action Comics and concludes over in Superman’s eponymous volume. It was a bit of a calculated risk, frankly, to assume that readers of one title were necessarily buying the other, but then again the Superman brand had a terrifically powerful appeal…
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