Action Comics #571 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1985. It was published on June 27, 1985.
Synopsis for Superman: "Mission to Earth!"
While Superman is helping a living robot who has come to Earth for the material needed to save his people from destruction, a scientist who was snubbed for the Nobel Prize wreaks havoc with her discovery.
Appearing in Superman: "Mission to Earth!"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Perry White (Cameo)
- Kent Family
- Johnathan Kent (Mentioned only)
- Martha Kent (Mentioned only)
- Josh Coyle
- Morgan Edge (Cameo)
Antagonists:
- Dr. Alice Herman (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Gyrosians (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Thresher 222 (Single appearance)
- Metropolis University Students (Unnamed) (Cameo)
- Citizens of Metropolis (Unnamed) (Cameo)
- United States Army (Unnamed) (Cameo)
- Five WGBS Employees (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Councilman Gregg (candidate for mayor of Metropolis) (Single appearance)
- Dan Reed (regular host of Noonday Live) (Mentioned only)
- Four Green Room Guests (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Professor Fellman (Chairman of the Biochemistry Department) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Citizens of Sweden (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Dr. Herman's assistant (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Elsa (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Nobel Academy (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Jetliner Passengers (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Two Jetliner Pilots (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- J. Fred Muggs (Mentioned only)
- Female Prisoner (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Prison Guard (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Batman (Cameo) (In a vision)
- Lex Luthor (Cameo) (In a vision)
- Albert Einstein (Mentioned only)
- Sigmund Freud (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Space
- Sun (of Gyros-4)
- Gyros-4 (Single appearance)
- Thresher 222's Laboratory
- Earth
- Metropolis
- Metropolis University
- Biochemistry Laboratory (In ruins)
- Galaxy Communications Building
- Clark Kent's Office
- WGBS Studios
- Control Room
- Green Room
- Morgan Edge's Office
- Roosevelt Airport (Mentioned only)
- Metropolis University
- Pocantico Federal Correctional Facility (several miles north of Metropolis)
- Air Defense Control Center (Unnamed) (unknown location)
- North Pole
- South America (Mentioned only)
- Bolivia (Mentioned only)
- Sweden
- Stockholm
- Stockholm International Airport
- University of Stockholm
- Laboratory
- Stadshuset (In a photograph only)
- Nobel Academy (Unnamed)
- Stockholm
- Metropolis
Items:
- Living Protoplasm
- Neoplasm
- Bio-Regenerative Formula
- Molybdenium
- Nobel Prize (Mentioned only)
- Daily Planet Newspaper
- Gettysburg Address (Mentioned only)
- Time Magazine
- Winners of the Nobel Prize Book
- Lex Luthor's Warsuit (Cameo) (In a vision)
Vehicles:
- Jetliner
Notes
- Editor's Note: The events depicted in this story occurred before the "Clark Kent--Fired" series now appearing in Superman.