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Action Comics 374

ACTION COMICS #374

Cover Date: March 1969
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1969-01-28

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Cover Credits:
Art: Neal Adams


Story: "Alias Super-Thief!" (15 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJack Abel
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in issue #372; also in flashback)

Villain(s):

Agent Zero-Zero (an foreign spy; takes the identity of Clark Kent; also in flashback)
"Duke" Dugan (first appearance)
"Gem" Horton (first appearance)
"Foxy" Fagan (first appearance)
"Dealer" Wheeler (first appearance)

Other Character(s):

an FBI agent (also posing as "Super-Thief" to infiltrate his gang; first appearance)
a Superman robot (first appearance; also in flashback; short-circuits and destroyed)

Cameo Appearance(s):

"Super-Thief" (Jud Blake; first mentioned; died prior to the start of this story)

Location(s):

Metropolis
Daily Planet

Comment(s):

Story continued from issue #372 and continues in the next issue.

Solicitation:

The amnesiac Superman now believes that he is a criminal called Super-Thief and even leads his gang in a crime spree!


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Second Story: "No Mercy for Supergirl"" (9 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl

Villain(s):

The Avenger (first appearance; a self-described super-hero from the planet Sarkon; dies)

Other Character(s):

students at Stanhope College
a botany professor
a zoology professor
inhabitants of the planet Sarkon (first appearance of all; in flashbacks)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Stanhope College
the Congo, Africa
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Sarkon (first appearance; in flashbacks)
three unidentified planets (in flashbacks)

Story Reprinted in:

Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2018)


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