I'm confident that Superman will never be pushed to the point of committing murder! 
- — Sorban
Action Comics #582 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of August, 1986.
Contents
Synopsis for "The Strange Rebirth of Jor-El and Lara!"
Rokk and Sorban, the two galactic gamblers, see if Superman can be tempted into committing murder by creating two simulacra of Jor-El and Lara, deceiving the Man of Steel into thinking that they are his real parents, and then turning them against him.
Appearing in "The Strange Rebirth of Jor-El and Lara!"
Featured Characters:
- Superman (Flashback and main story) also (In dream sequence only) (as a baby)
Supporting Characters:
- House of El
- Jimmy Olsen (Cameo)
- Lois Lane (Cameo)
- Perry White (Cameo)
Antagonists:
- Rokk (Final appearance)
- Sorban (Final appearance)
- Two Free-Floating Intellects (Single appearance) (Origin)
- (also disguised as)
- Jordan Ellsworth
- Jor-El
- (also disguised as)
- Lora Ellsworth
- Lara
- (also disguised as)
Other Characters:
- Rao (Mentioned only)
- Robot
- Quigley (Superman's butler) (Single appearance)
- Alien Race #1 (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Alien Race #2 (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Daily Planet Employees (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- Two Hot Air Balloon Passengers (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
- United States Coast Guard (Mentioned only)
- Kryptonians
- Kryptonian Science Council (Mentioned only)
- Three Men (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Phantom Zone Projector Executioner (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Phantom Zoners (Flashback and main story)
- Criminal (on Krypton) (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Two Criminals (on Earth) (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- General Zod (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Jax-Ur (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Professor Va-Kox (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Faora Hu-Ul (Cameo) (On a TV or computer screen)
- Frankenstein Monsters (Mentioned only)
- Two Prison-Asteroid Guards (Unnamed) (Cameo) (Single appearance)
Locations:
- Space
- Krypton (In dream sequence only) and (Flashback only) (Destroyed)
- Planet (Unnamed)
- Planet (Unnamed)
- Ventura (Mentioned only)
- Prison-Asteroid (Unnamed)
- Phantom Zone (Flashback and main story)
- Milky Way Galaxy (Mentioned only)
- Earth
- United States of America
- Metropolis
- 344 Clinton Street
- Clark Kent's Apartment
- Galaxy Communications Building
- 344 Clinton Street
- New York
- Pacific Coast (Unnamed) (unknown location)
- Metropolis
- Pacific Ocean
- North Pole
- Egypt
- United States of America
- Timestream
Items:
- Fortress of Solitude Key
- Mind-Prober Ray
- Super-Diagnostic Equipment
- Jor-El (Statue only)
- Lara (Statue only)
- Krypton (globe)
- Red-Powered Solar Contraption (Unnamed)
- Mind-Transfer Device
- Flag of Krypton
- Signal Scrambler
- Phantom Zone Projector (Flashback and main story) (Destroyed)
- Phantom Zone Viewer
Vehicles:
- Kryptonian Rocket (In dream sequence only)
- Rokk and Sorban's Spacecraft
- Hot Air Balloon
Notes
- This issue is set in the short period where the Superman of Earth-One (and all his supporting characters and villains) existed on the post-Crisis New Earth. This period ended when the effects of the Crisis "caught up" with Superman (et al) in The Man of Steel #1.
- This is the last issue of the series to star the Superman of Earth-One (and his supporting characters and villains). The next issue concludes a two-part imaginary tale titled Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? that began in Superman #423.
- This is the final appearance of the Silver Age Rokk and Sorban. The revised post-Flashpoint Rokk and Sorban make their first appearance in The Green Lantern #1.
- A letter to the editor from Craig Boldman of Fairfield, Ohio.
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