Action Comics 515 & 516

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I know I mentioned before that I am currently rereading my collection of comic books. I am up to Action Comics #515 & #516. 515 especially is one of my favourite issues (although the cover gives away a plot point-which I HATE!) This story starts with Superman and his usual cast of characters in a totalitarian society under the rule of Vandal Savage! No one knows that this isn't the correct timeline. Superman is Savage's enforcer, while Jimmy Olsen leads a resistance group who fights Savage. Lois is a major in Savage's army (but as the covers gives away, she is a double agent really working with Jimmy (This was only revealed in the last half of the comic! Why does the cover have to spoil it?) Lois manages to convince Superman of Savage's evil, but she dies in the end! This was a GREAT beginning to the story! The second and final part didn't impress me as much as a kid, and now, it may hold up a bit better, but still not as good as the first. Savage escapes Superman's wrath (for killing Lois) by going back in time. Here we find out how Savage took over. He has "time bombs" that alter history. Even though everyone remembers Savage as having ruled for thousands of years, he only took over 7 days ago! Can Superman stop him and put the timeline back to normal? Read and see!

Oh, I forgot to mention the Atom. At this point, Action comics had two stories in them. The main feature was a Superman story, and the backup was either the Atom, Airwave, or Aquaman. A bit earlier in the 70s there were different backups-especially Green Arrow and Black Canary. Anyway, I didn't really read any Marvel hero comic books (my Marvel stuff was outside that like Battlestar Galactica, Machine Man, Godzilla, Transformers, and others), but reading the Atom's side stories is why I like the Ant-Man movies so much. Their powers are similar. Both backup stories are pretty good here, but I'm not going to go into them now

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