I'll bet four Green Lanterns and one Superman can whip that big green fuzzball easily! 
- — Arisia
Action Comics #589 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of June, 1987.
Synopsis for "Green on Green"
The Green Lanterns rescue Superman who was unconscious following an explosion that saved the Earth from an invasion. But they notice a bio-mass heading towards the planet, Superman and the Lanterns united forces against the creature that happened to be the same one Superman battled previously with the Phantom Stranger.
In the end they unite their will powers to neutralize the monster and turn it into a fertile planet to host the Therils, an alien race in desperate need of a new home.
Appearing in "Green on Green"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Mound of Dirt (Flashback and main story) (from Action Comics #585)
- Cohesive Cloud of Biological Material (Single appearance) (Destroyed)
- Antibodies (Destroyed)
- Microbes (Destroyed)
- Cohesive Cloud of Biological Material (Single appearance) (Destroyed)
Other Characters:
- Hawkman (Mentioned only) (from Action Comics #588)
- Hawkwoman (Mentioned only) (from Action Comics #588)
- Thanagarians (Mentioned only) (from Action Comics #588)
- Therils (alien race of soilworms) (Single appearance)
- Phantom Stranger (Cameo) (Flashback only) (from Action Comics #585)
Locations:
- Space (also 400,000 light years from Earth)
- Sector 327-B (Mentioned only)
- Temporary Space Citadel (500 light years from Earth)
- Plantoid (Unnamed) (Formerly) (the mound of dirt) (Therils were left here to repopulate) (Single appearance)
- Sun (Mentioned only) (from Action Comics #585)
- Earth's Moon (Mentioned only) (from Action Comics #588)
- Earth
Items:
- Green Lantern Ring
- Energy Construct Creation
- Body Grabber
- Body Capsule
- Body Restrainer
- Megaphone
- Shield
- Giant Fan Blade
- Jackhammer
- Scanner
- Planet Stopper
- Energy Construct Creation
Vehicles:
- 1000 Spacecraft Thanagarian Invasion Fleet (Mentioned only) (from Action Comics #588)
- Green Lantern Spacecraft (energy construct creation)
Notes
- Several paragraph memorial to Gardner Fox by John Byrne.
- This issue is reprinted in Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 3 and in Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 2 (2021 Edition).
Trivia
- Kilowog mentioned that along with his race, the Therils lost there homeworld during "th' great crisis".
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