Action Comics #531 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1982.
Synopsis for "Superman: The Devil... ...and the Daily Planet!"
The Daily Planet is in danger of being turned into a tabloid by a publisher who wishes to take it over, but a ghost of a printer's devil will not allow it.
Appearing in "Superman: The Devil... ...and the Daily Planet!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Morton "Mort" Waxman (Single appearance)
- Jeremiah Odets (As a spirit) (Single appearance) (Origin)
- Young Lady (Unnamed) (Single appearance) (As an illusion only)
- Demons (As an illusion only)
- Frankenstein's Monster (As an illusion only)
Other Characters:
- Waxman Publishing (mispelled Maxman previously called Waxman Chain in Action Comics #529) (Mentioned only)
- Brainiac (In a photograph only)
- Suzanne Somers (Mentioned only)
- Victor Frankenstein (Mentioned only)
- Mary Shelley (Mentioned only)
- Mr. Mxyzptlk (Mentioned only)
- Lord Satanis (Mentioned only)
- Daily Planet Employees
- Three Members (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Francie Williams (nightshift reporter) (Single appearance)
- Carl Tracy (nightshift reporter) (Single appearance)
- Earl Krantz (printer) (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Metropolis
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Eight Floor
- Boardroom
- Records Room
- Sub-Basement
- Computer-Controlled Press Room
- Eight Floor
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Washington, D.C. (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Daily Planet Newspapers
- Video Display Terminals
- Jimmy Olsen's Signal Watch (Mentioned only)
- Eldritch Smoke
Vehicles:
- Daily Planet Delivery Trucks
Synopsis for "The Atom: No Time Off for Heroes!"
While Ray and Jean Palmer are in Curaçao, Venezuela, for a physicists' convention, the Atom comes across a nuclear bomb which must be deactivated, at a time in which his body is giving off inexplicable mini-nuclear reactions.
Appearing in "The Atom: No Time Off for Heroes!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Two Purse Snatchers
- Fred (Unnamed) (First appearance)
- Man (Unnamed) (First appearance)
- Mr. G (Behind the scenes)
Other Characters:
- Aqauman (Mentioned only)
- Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) (Mentioned only)
- Two Nuclear Physicists (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Ed Nardello (Single appearance)
- Madeline Nardello (Single appearance)
- Curacao Police Department (Unnamed)
Locations:
- Caribbean Sea
- Curaçao
- Willemstad
- Paradise Isles (the Palmers' Hotel)
- Queen Emma Bridge (a floating bridge)
- Willemstad
- Curaçao
- Venezuela (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Nuclear Device (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- Yacht (disappeared it was provided by Green Lantern)
Notes
- "The Devil... ...and the Daily Planet!"
- The Frankenstein's Monster in this story is not the real Frankenstein's Monster of Earth-One (as seen in his own backup series in The Phantom Stranger (Volume 2). Instead, he is a mystical duplicate conjured up by the ghost of Jeremiah Odets, an apprentice printer who died while working on the first issue of the Daily Planet newspaper.
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