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"Superman: "Beware the Hero-Killers!"": Professional hero killers Kydyk and Zoyoz make a presentation regarding their past assassinations. A shadowy figure watches with great interest as he views examples of galactic heroes being eliminated by the assassins for hire. He decides to hire the pai

Quote1 How can I live with myself after this? Green Lantern dead-- And I am the murder weapon that killed him! Quote2
— Superman

Action Comics #444 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of February, 1975.

Synopsis for Superman: "Beware the Hero-Killers!"

Professional hero killers Kydyk and Zoyoz make a presentation regarding their past assassinations. A shadowy figure watches with great interest as he views examples of galactic heroes being eliminated by the assassins for hire. He decides to hire the pair of killers to eliminate his arch foe, he remarks that he has attempted to destroy his foe on a number of occasions but has been unsuccessful. The two energy beings arrive on Earth. One of them disguises himself as a security guard and attacks Clark Kent in an elevator. He shoots him with an energy ray and stuns the hero in disguise. The energy being then escapes with the thought that phase one is complete. Clark seems relieved to have survived the attempt on his life and seems to be fine as he flies across the city. He then spots a lone firefighter on the rooftop. He asks Superman for help as smoke rises from a skylight. Superman approaches the smoke and it engulfs him as if it were alive. He then gets attacked by the firefighter as he shoots him with another energy beam. Superman falls down to the street as the energy assassin makes its escape announcing that phase 2 has been completed. The next morning Clark Kent is on the air when he notices a stream of energy emitting from his mouth. He calls on his friend Green Lantern who decides to blast Superman with his ring to neutralize the energy flow. Green Lantern aims the ring at Superman and fires. The beam ricochets off Superman and bounces back to Green Lantern. As Green Lantern lays dying he realizes that he was the target of the assassins and not Superman. Lanterns body then disintegrates and appears in front of the sinister figure that turns out to be Sinestro. Green Lantern then comes to and apprehends Sinestro and we discover that he had only appeared to be dead. The energy assassins are apprehended by Superman and he reveals that he had discovered their assassination plot in advance. He and Lantern had devised a plan in which Lanterns ring appeared to hit Superman but it never touched him. The twinkle effect soon wears off from Supermans body and he returns to normal.

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Synopsis for Green Arrow: "The Black Canary is Dead!"

At the behest of the boy's father, Green Arrow tries to talk Tommy Genetta out of hanging around with a crowd of juvenile delinquents and junkies, who have indirectly caused the death of Tommy's big brother Frankie through an overdose. While he is in the neighborhood, GA sees and trails a man whose clothing is far too expensive for the run-down area he is passing through. Later, GA learns from the police that the man is Peter Lazenby, one of the Four Horsemen, a drug cartel. Oliver Queen gets Dinah Lance to agree to hang out at the casino of Max Lucker, another Horseman, in order to meet Lazenby and get information on the drug ring. Later, Green Arrow raids Lucker's office, beats up his guards, and warns him of further pressure if GA finds out he was behind the Frankie Genetta death. But Lucker swears to get back at GA, and sends a tape for him to police headquarters, with a lock of blonde hair from the Black Canary's wig. The taped message says, in part, "Tell Green Arrow the Black Canary is dead...and tell him we did it...slow!"

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  • Peter Lazenby
  • Max Lucker

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  • Mr. Genetta
  • Tommy Genetta

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The plot in "The Black Canary Is Dead!" is similar to that of Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters where Dinah Lance goes undercover as a drug lord's girlfriend to get information on drug shipments and is captured. Mike Grell is the writer in both cases.


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