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Action Comics #326

April 20, 2017 Leave a Comment

Superman fights unstoppable giant insects and Supergirl becomes infatuated with someone named Al.

giant insects eating city

Giant insects attack Metropolis

Issue #326

The Legion of Super-Creatures

In this first story, giant alien insects attack Metropolis and prove to be too much for Superman to handle. He heads to the Fortress of Solitude to come up with a plan, and theorizes that because the insects are so strong, they must be from Krypton.

Superman watching insects

Superman observes a group of insects

But that theory goes out window when the army drops all the Kryptonite in the world (!) on the insects and they survive unscathed.

Superman with insects on back in sun

The insects survive a trip to the sun

Visit to Giantia

Superman finds a spheroid alien spacecraft and gets inside because…why not? It automatically launches and takes him to the planet Giantia. There, he meets a group of aliens – survivors of a plague that wiped out their world’s population. After what they had to endure, they became a little unhinged, so now they’re death worshipers!

death worshipers

Superman arrives on Giantia

The aliens’ goal is to send the giant insects to 100 worlds and cause mass chaos, destruction, and death. Insects have gone to 99 worlds, so the worshipers only have one more left to destroy: Giantia itself. Superman escapes in the spheroid spaceship just as the aliens pull a “world-wrecking” switch and the planet explodes.

Superman gets in spacecraft

Superman escapes Giantia

Debris from Giantia streaks across Earth’s surface (yes, it only took like 5 minutes for it to reach Earth). The Giantite meteors have the same effect on the insects as Kryptonite does to Superman, and they all die.

Linda with Al

Linda (Supergirl/Kara) and Al

The Secret of Supergirl’s Suitor

The second story involves Supergirl falling in love with a guy named Al. Really super-obsessed in love with him. Even when he steals something and gets busted by Superman, she pays his bail by diving into the Earth and collecting gold. Even when a fish guy (not Aquaman) proposes marriage to Supergirl out of the blue, she doesn’t accept because of her feelings for Al.

Al thanks Supergirl

Supergirl bails Al out of jail

Suddenly, a fire breaks out in Al’s apartment in Metropolis. Supergirl rescues him, but he suffers fatal burns.

Supergirl carrying Al away from fire

Supergirl saves Al from a fire

On his deathbed he gives his backstory that he’s really a synthetic man from Argo City (her home) used as a test subject to see if Argonians could be evacuated into another dimension. A “freak accident” freed Al from the dimension and brought him to Earth. And the reason Supergirl felt so drawn to him was because he was made to look like the beloved doll-robot that she grew up with. Okay.

Al telling his story to Supergirl

Al tells his story

Thoughts

Both of these stories were pretty weak with incredibly fast resolutions. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re bad. The fun and campiness of these stories make up for some of their failings.

Giantite landing on Earth

The remains of Giantia rain down on Earth

But not all. The biggest flaw of both these stories is that they’re essentially meaningless. In the first one, Superman did absolutely nothing substantial. If he just spent the whole time in the Fortress of Solitude eating popcorn and watching I Love Lucy reruns on tv, the story would play out the same way: Giantia would have still exploded and killed all the insects.

Kinda sucks about the 98 other worlds that are infested by the insects, though, unless the Giantite reached them as well.

Supergirl with doll

Supergirl leaves the story with a memento

The second story is just as pointless; it’s all about the mystery of Al, and when we finally find out who he is, he dies. But unlike the first story, it was more entertaining, in a melodramatic, soap opera kinda of way. Al’s backstory is convoluted as hell and raises more questions than it answers, but that’s why I love it.

Rating

3 out of 5 eggs rating

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Decade: 1960s Filed Under: Comic Reviews Tagged: DC, action, romance, sci-fi, superheroes

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