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"New Worlds, Part Three": A group of robbers and a crooked cop fleeing in a stolen armoured truck are stopped by members of Blue Earth, now with Superman-like powers. Blue Earth inflict grievous injuries on the criminals and leave them to die in their burning car, but Superman and Steel fly in t

Quote1 The Empire of Shadows is invading us. Quote2
— Superman (Clark Kent)

Action Comics #1059 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 2024. It was published on November 28, 2023.

Synopsis for "New Worlds, Part Three"

A group of robbers and a crooked cop fleeing in a stolen armoured truck are stopped by members of Blue Earth, now with Superman-like powers. Blue Earth inflict grievous injuries on the criminals and leave them to die in their burning car, but Superman and Steel fly in to save them. Blue Earth attack but the two heroes fend them off and the rest of the Superman Family flies in to help. Superman asks Blue Earth to stand down peacefully but they charge the Supers. Otho-Ra eagerly rushes into the fight, but she finds herself suddenly surrounded by green smoke filled with images of her family and hears Norah Stone's voice in her head telling her that she is different than the rest of the Super-Family. Norah appears and tells Otho-Ra that Blue Earth is just a small part of her plans and that what she really wants is her, much to Otho's shock. Norah tells Otho that she doesn't belong with the Super-Family, and in her heart she is a Warzoon who misses her chain, revealing that she knows Otho killed people to protect her brother and ties her own hands before going to sleep every night. Otho furiously blasts Norah, but her eye beams pass harmlessly though her. Norah tosses Otho her necklace and tells her that she'll see her again soon. The smoke and Norah disappear and Osul-Ra is in front of her yelling at her to wake up. He tells her that she froze up through the whole fight and Blue Earth have been defeated. Supergirl sees the necklace in Otho's hand and asks what it is, but Otho tells her it's just something she found.

Later at the Steelworks, John Henry and Natasha Irons give Superman a concentrated dose of yellow sunlight in a machine called "The Harvester" to recharge his powers. When he emerges Lois tells him he should check the news. She reveals that Blue Earth put out a doctored video of the fight making it look like the Super-Family violently attacked them and let the criminals get away, while Blue Earth have been livestreaming themselves cleaning up the aftermath of the fight. Although they know that she is stealing Kryptonian powers, Norah claims in an interview that Blue Earth have invented nanobots that give normal people powers like Superman, openly pitching for Blue Earth to replace the Super-Family. Looking at Norah's face on the screen, Clark is sure he recognises her but can't remember where from. Lois mentions that Norah looks like Batman and Clark suddenly realises where he has seen her before: she is Janan al Ghul, the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul from a world in the Dark Multiverse who the Authority fought just before they embarked on the Warworld mission.

Meanwhile at the Fortress of Solitude, Superboy and Supergirl are watching the twins. Osul-Ra is happily playing with Conner, but Otho is transfixed by the necklace and Supergirl seems exhausted. Kara admits to Conner that she has felt weak since the fight and they realise that her powers have been drained like Clark's. Green energy suddenly erupts from the necklace and envelops Otho-Ra. Clark hears her screaming from Metropolis and flies to the Fortress, but he arrives just as Otho disappears and he yells to her that they will rescue her.

Otho-Ra reappears in Ra's al Ghul's throne room on Earth al Ghul in the Dark Multiverse. Janan tells her that big things are about to happen, and it all depends on her.

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Synopsis for "Secret Identity, Part Two"

Kong Kenan's soul passes to the In-Between, but Master I-Ching meets him at the threshold of the afterlife and teaches him to use his qi control to return from the dead. He wakes up in his apartment, to the relief of the Superman Family. They explain that anyone who learns Superman's secret identity suffers a fatal brain aneurysm due to a psychic suggestion implanted by Lex Luthor, which is why they were trying to stop him finding out and refused to tell him their secret identities. Kong explains to them that a journalist in China suddenly died in suspicious circumstances while investigating Superman, and he suspected that one of the Super-Family murdered him, but he now understands it was Luthor's psychic bomb. With all the misunderstandings cleared up, Superboy reveals to Kenan that his real name is Conner Kent and shakes his hand.

Suddenly Wang Baixi bursts in and blasts the Super-Family, as Robinpod had reported that Kong's vital signs had stopped and Wang assumed he had been murdered. Conner attacks Wang and Kenan tries to stop the fight, saying he can explain everything, but the Super-Twins pull him out of the apartment. Robinpod tells Kenan that any explanation he gives to Bat-Man will lead to him letting slip clues to Superman's secret identity and Bat-Man inevitably figuring it out and dying. Kenan swoops in and breaks up the fight, telling Bat-Man that the Supers are innocent, but refuses to explain why or share the information he has gathered. Bat-Man asks what he is doing and says they are a team, but Kenan claims the Supers are his team now, pretending to defect. Bat-Man leaves angrily and Kenan officially joins the Super-Family. He pretends to be happy, but is in fact sad to lose his friends in the JLC.

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Synopsis for "Superman: Jon Kent, in... A Heart In Metropolis"

Jon Kent and Jay Nakamura manage to carve out some time for each other in their chaotic schedules.

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