Action Comics #326 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of July, 1965.
Synopsis for Superman: "The Legion of Super-Creatures"
Giant monsters begin appearing all over Metropolis. Superman encounters a purple sea serpent that seems to have super powers that match the man of Steel. A dragonfly like creature then attacks an airplane with is menacing needlelike stinger. The creatures needle stinger pierces a hole through Supermans cape and flies off at a super rate of speed. Superman begins to surmise that these creatures might originate from his home planet of Krypton since they posses great powers. The next day, Superman finds a giant spiderweb extending the length of the city near the Daily Planet. Superman attempts to break the web with his heat vision but becomes entangled in its sticky structure. In the meantime a giant spider advances menacingly towards the man of steel but the giant dragonfly creature from the previous day suddenly appears and engages the spider giving Superman the chance to escape. Chaos ensues as the superpowered insects overrun the city. Superman flies a batch of them on his back all the way to the outskirts of the sun but the creatures have no problem surviving the intense heat. They are invulnerable to kryptonite and they also resist being sent to the Phantom Zone. Superman retreats to his fortress when he suddenly detects an alien space probe on a monitor. Superman locates the probe and enters the strange craft. The door suddenly closes behind him and the spacecraft launches into space with Superman trapped inside. It arrives at an immense planet bigger than even Krypton itself. The planet it populated with giant insects that live under a red sun and Superman quickly realizes that they become super powered under a yellow sun like himself. He also encounters a group of aliens whose home planet was destroyed by a space blight. A few of them escaped to the insect planet but they vowed that a hundred other planets would die in an homage to death. The aliens would then select planets with yellow suns and send the giant insects to wipe them out. The hundredth planet they chose was earth. With their goal fulfilled, the aliens then blow themselves up along with the insect planet as a final act to honor death. Superman is barely able to escape in a small space craft. As the planet explodes, Superman notices small chunks of debris from the planet that suddenly turn into Giantite just as chunks of Krypton turned into Kryptonite. Superman arrives on earth but does not notice that the spacecraft he has a comet like tail that is dragging behind his ship. The comet tail is full of Giantite which proves deadly to the giant insects overrunning earth. The insects die immediately and Earth is safe once more,
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Synopsis for Supergirl: "The Secret of Supergirl's Suitor"
When Linda Danvers (and Supergirl) finds herself powerfully attracted to Al Mintor, a petty thief in town, she covers for him and makes his bail with gold. She is unable to explain her infatuation for him to Superman or her boyfriends Jerro and Dick Malverne. Finally, Mintor is fatally injured in a fire. Shortly before his death, he reveals the truth: he is an android "doll" from Krypton, made with non-Kryptonian parts by Magus, a master dollmaker from Argo City. He has the same face and consciousness (thanks to a mental link between Magus's androids) as a boy-doll android Kara played with as a young girl in Argo City. Mintor was constructed by order of Zor-El, who sent him into the Survival Zone as a test long before he and Allura went to the Zone. A freak accident set him loose on Earth, and he began constructing his own non-android dolls of persons he knew in Argo City. When his landlady locked him out for non-payment of rent, Mintor tried to steal enough money to buy back his doll collection. Then Mintor "dies", and Supergirl later buys the Kara doll he built.
Appearing in Supergirl: "The Secret of Supergirl's Suitor"
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- Al Mintor (Single appearance)
- Superman
- Dick Malverne
- Jerro
- Zor-El (Flashback only)
- Allura (Flashback only)
- Edna Danvers (Flashback only)
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