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"Superman: "The Interplanetary Olympics!"": Alien criminals attempt to drain some of Superman's energy for their own purposes by inviting him to compete in an "Interplanetary Olympics," but Superman sees through the ruse and deliberately refrains from expending his power.

Action Comics #304 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1963.

Synopsis for Superman: "The Interplanetary Olympics!"

Alien criminals attempt to drain some of Superman's energy for their own purposes by inviting him to compete in an "Interplanetary Olympics," but Superman sees through the ruse and deliberately refrains from expending his power. The space criminals are apprehended and arrested for Piracy in the end.

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  • Rogan of Vorn
  • Boscar of Krag
  • Borko of Gorn

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Synopsis for Supergirl: "The Maid of Menace!"

A super powered female villain by the name of Black Flame makes an appearance on Earth. She appears to have all of Super Girl's abilities and even appears to control Comet the Super horse. She instructs Comet to destroy Monument Mountain in Gold Stone National Park much to the dismay of Supergirl. Black Flame reveals that she is from the year 4,000 and claims to be a descendant of Supergirl herself. She goes on to reveal that she is a queen of a pirate planet but has chosen to use her super abilities for crime rather than for good. Supergirl is distraught over the news. She decides to travel to the future to learn more about Black Flame. She learns that there is no record of any supervillain by that name and returns back to her time. Supergirl concludes that Black Flame might not be from the future but suspects that she might have originated from the bottle city of Kandor. She travels to Kandor to investigate and learns about a brilliant scientist by the name of Zora. Zora had been a friend of the super criminal Lesla-Lar who was vaporized by criminals who were testing out a disintegration gun. Supergirl finds that Zora is busy working in her lab which eliminates her as being the Black Flame. She concludes that Black Flame did not originate from Kandor. Supergirl then announces that she will use Gold Kryptonite to remove her own superpowers permanently. She reasons that if she is no longer super then she will not have super powered descendants such as the Black Flame. The super villain observes the powerless Supergirl. She then announces that she really is Zora of Kandor. She reveals that she had used a robot to take her place when Supergirl visited Kandor. Zora had escaped the bottle city to assume her identity as the Black Flame to take Supergirls place. She had used a Red Kryptonite cosmic cloud to transform herself to normal size once she escaped Kandor. The enlarging effect is only temporary and Black Flame returns back to her small Kandorian size. Even though she is small, she still retains her superpowers. She supposedly defeats the powerless Supergirl, but she is unaware that Supergirl had faked her exposure to the gold kryptonite. Supergirl reveals that she is still super and had used a fake type of gold Kryptonite to make it appear like she had no super abilities. She then scoops up the tiny Black Flame and incarcerates her in a powder compact that is filled with small grains of real gold Kryptonite. The gold kryptonite grains are enough to rob the Black Flame of her superpowers permanently. Supergirl had noticed that the Black Flame had a dental filling in her mouth when she laughed and surmised that she could not possibly be a super descendant. Super descendants would be invulnerable to drilling so Supergirl surmised that she must be Zora from Kandor. Zora is turned over to Kandor authorities as she vows revenge on Supergirl.

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  • Bal-Korin (Single appearance)
  • Lesla-Lar (Flashback only)

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