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ACTION COMICS #353
Cover Date: August 1967
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1967-06-29
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Cover Credits:
Art: Wayne Boring
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Credits:
| Story | Otto Binder |
| Art | Wayne Boring |
| Lettering | Joe Letterese |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (next in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #105)
Guest Star(s):
- Prometheus (creates the clay body of Zha-Vam)
- Zeus (grants power to Zha-Vam)
- Hercules (grants power to Zha-Vam)
- Apollo (grants power to Zha-Vam)
- Vulcan (grants power to Zha-Vam)
- Achilles (grants power to Zha-Vam)
- Mercury (grants power to Zha-Vam)
- Pluto
- Atlas
- Neptune (earliest chronological appearance; next in Adventure Comics #255/3)
- Oracle of Delphi
Villain(s):
Other Character(s):
- an unseen alien race helped by Superman (first appearance; voices only)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- citizens of Metropolis (seen in a crystal ball)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Latium
- Mount Olympus
- Metropolis (seen in a crystal ball)
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
- two artificial moons orbiting an ice planet (first appearance)
Comment(s):
- Story continued from the previous issue.
Credits:
| Story | Otto Binder |
| Art | Jim Mooney |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Supergirl (last in Superman Vol. 1 #199; next in issue #354/2)
Villain(s):
- The Living Library (first appearance; Zorkians, an alien species from Zorkia; their brains in nutrient tanks removed from their bodies; at least seven; Leader Brain and Biography Brain named; last chronological appearance in flashback in the next issue)
Other Character(s):
- Joe Trent (first appearance; a student under the mental command of the Living Library to gather books for them)
- Alice (first appearance; a student; gets a part-time job as a dancer at the Campus Club discotheque)
- Betty (first appearance; a student; gets a part-time job as a model at Carnaby Center)
- a Stanhope College guidance counselor (first appearance)
- three Zorkian androids (first appearance of all)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- This story takes place over at least four days.
- Story continues in the next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2018)