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"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.

Quote1 The answer I feel, is one that should concern us all, since even conservation won't solve the problem forever! And that answer is right before your eyes...or rather, in them! If I could duplicate the way your heat vision works-- --So tell me, how does it work? Quote2
Professor Potter

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)

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Antagonists:

  • Four Robbers (Unnamed) (Single appearance)

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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!"

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Antagonists:

  • Druid (Unnamed) (Single appearance)

Other Characters:

  • Gus (cameraman)
  • Charles Kuralt (Mentioned only)
  • Orson Welles (Mentioned only)
  • Citizens of Pepperwood (Unnamed) (Single appearance)

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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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