Action Comics #558 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1984.
Synopsis for Superman: "The All-Searing Eyes!"
Professor Potter invents a helmet that may enable Superman's heat-vision to warm the world. The problem is that, when Superman takes the helmet off, he can't shut off his heat-vision.
Appearing in Superman: "The All-Searing Eyes!"
Featured Characters:
- Superman (Cameo) (Flashback and main story) (as Superbaby)
Supporting Characters:
- Lana Lang (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
- Professor Potter
- Jimmy Olsen
- Elastic Lad (Cameo) (In a vision)
- Oscar Asherman (Mentioned only)
- Kent Family
- Jonathan Kent (Cameo) (Flashback only)
Antagonists:
- Four Robbers (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Citizens of Coaltown (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Mayor of Coaltown (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo) (First appearance; unnamed) (appears next in Action Comics #567)
- Restaurant Patrons (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Metropolis Police Department (Unnamed) (Cameo)
- Metropolis Eagle (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- 21st Century (Mentioned only)
- Pennsylvania
- Coaltown (appears next in Action Comics #567)
- Metropolis
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Clark Kent's Office
- Professor Potter's Residence
- Professor Potter's Laboratory
- Metrop
- Top of Metrop (restaurant)
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Smallville
- Kent Farm (Cameo) (Flashback only)
Items:
- Jimmy Olsen's Signal Watch (Destroyed)
- Professor Potter's Heat Vision Helmet (Destroyed)
- Heat Vision Helmets (rebuilt by Superman)
- Nobel Prize (Mentioned only)
- Guns (Destroyed)
Synopsis for Superman: "Hoax Night!"
During Hoax Night in the small town of Pepperwood, New Jersey a druid is freed of his centuries-long imprisonment in a tree and fights Superman.
Appearing in Superman: "Hoax Night!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Druid (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Gus (cameraman)
- Charles Kuralt (Mentioned only)
- Orson Welles (Mentioned only)
- Citizens of Pepperwood (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
Locations:
- New Jersey
- Pepperwood
Items:
- The War of the Worlds (Mentioned only)
Notes
- One of Professor Potter's wacky inventions mentioned was a machine that could squeeze over 2000 gallons of onion juice in an hour.
Trivia
- Coaltown, Pennsylvania is a substitute for the the real town of Centralia, Pennsylvania where an active underground coal mine fire forced the abandonment of the entire town.
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