DC Special (Volume 1) with a cover date of May, 1976.
Synopsis for Superman: "The Legion of Super-Creatures!"
This story is reprinted from Action Comics #326.
Giant monsters begin appearing all over Metropolis. Superman encounters a purple sea serpent that seems to have super powers that match the man of Steel. A dragonfly like creature then attacks an airplane with is menacing needlelike stinger. The creatures needle stinger pierces a hole through Supermans cape and flies off at a super rate of speed. Superman begins to surmise that these creatures might originate from his home planet of Krypton since they posses great powers. The next day, Superman finds a giant spiderweb extending the length of the city near the Daily Planet. Superman attempts to break the web with his heat vision but becomes entangled in its sticky structure. In the meantime a giant spider advances menacingly towards the man of steel but the giant dragonfly creature from the previous day suddenly appears and engages the spider giving Superman the chance to escape. Chaos ensues as the superpowered insects overrun the city. Superman flies a batch of them on his back all the way to the outskirts of the sun but the creatures have no problem surviving the intense heat. They are invulnerable to kryptonite and they also resist being sent to the Phantom Zone. Superman retreats to his fortress when he suddenly detects an alien space probe on a monitor. Superman locates the probe and enters the strange craft. The door suddenly closes behind him and the spacecraft launches into space with Superman trapped inside. It arrives at an immense planet bigger than even Krypton itself. The planet it populated with giant insects that live under a red sun and Superman quickly realizes that they become super powered under a yellow sun like himself. He also encounters a group of aliens whose home planet was destroyed by a space blight. A few of them escaped to the insect planet but they vowed that a hundred other planets would die in an homage to death. The aliens would then select planets with yellow suns and send the giant insects to wipe them out. The hundredth planet they chose was earth. With their goal fulfilled, the aliens then blow themselves up along with the insect planet as a final act to honor death. Superman is barely able to escape in a small space craft. As the planet explodes, Superman notices small chunks of debris from the planet that suddenly turn into Giantite just as chunks of Krypton turned into Kryptonite. Superman arrives on earth but does not notice that the spacecraft he has a comet like tail that is dragging behind his ship. The comet tail is full of Giantite which proves deadly to the giant insects overrunning earth. The insects die immediately and Earth is safe once more,
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Synopsis for Green Lantern: "The Leap Year Menace!"
This story is reprinted from Green Lantern (Volume 2) #3.
Hal Jordan is summoned by Carol to her office at the Ferris Aircraft Company. Hal is hopeful that she might be starting to show a romantic interest in him but to his surprise, she announces her intent to propose to Green Lantern at a charity drive. She reasons that it is a Leap Year which gives females the right to propose to males. Carol feels this is her best chance of landing Green Lantern for herself. She then asks Hal for his opinion of her idea. Hal counters by saying that Green Lantern is too much of a celebrity to settle down and offers himself as a suitable mate but Carol is determined to follow through on her plan. The day of the charity drive arrives and the Lantern knows that Carol will try to corner him alone. A mob of Green Lantern fans then arrive at the scene and Green Lantern agrees to go with Carol on a walk to escape his legion of female fans. Carol begins to ask for his hand in marriage but Green Lantern then uses his ring to conjure up a huge green creature to distract Carol from her intent. Unfortunately Green Lantern is then struck on the back of the head by a motorized toy airplane and it renders him unconscious. In the meantime, the monster runs havoc in the city. The military is called out to neutralize the menace as it wrecks destruction. Green Lantern eventually comes to and flies off to dissolve the monster with his ring. Green Lantern is commended for "destroying" the creature (Which he feels bad accepting the praise since he created the "menace" to begin with, but keeps mum about the truth.) When Carol tries once more to propose to Green Lantern, his legion of fans show up all proposing to him as well. Green Lanterns sees this as an opportunity to turn everyone down and flies off leaving Carol behind.
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- The Chiller-Diller (Single appearance)
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Synopsis for The War That Time Forgot: "The Big House of Monsters!"
This story is reprinted from Star-Spangled War Stories #132.
A young cop accompanies a thug named Nick as they travel by train on the way to prison. Nick attempts to bribe the young officer but the train suddenly derails which gives Nick the opportunity to escape. The young officer is found unconscious with wads of money stuffed in his pocket. His superiors assume that he accepted a bribe and intentionally allowed Nick to escape. Time passes and the young officer enlists in the army in his pursuit of the prisoner that got away. The young officer is desperate to apprehend Nick to clear his name. He eventually locates Nick in a Japanese prison camp and the two escape. They eventually use a raft to sail away from the prison island but they eventually arrive at another island that is occupied by monstrous dinosaur creatures. The two men team up together to fight off the monsters but at the same time they distrust one another because Nick knows that he must serve a prison sentence when he returns. The young cop Jackie is eventually abducted by a sea serpent creature much to the delight of Nick who feels that he is now free. What Nick doesn't realize is that he must now fend for himself as the monsters attack him from all sides. He realizes that he is truly in a big house of monsters as he fights for his life.
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Synopsis for "The Marvel Family Reaches Eternity"
This story is reprinted from The Marvel Family #7.
The Three Faces of Evil break free from their prison under the Rock of Eternity and steal Pandora's box. Here they are referred to as Evil, who can split himself into three forms. They fly away to attack worlds, however the Marvel Family arrives and are sent after the three forms. Captain Marvel follows Sin, who tries to destroy him in a star but is captured. Another part tries to destroy Jr. by making him crash into an asteroid, but Jr. withstands it and captures his quarry. Mary confronts the last one on a dead world. He releases a hornet from the box that makes her say Shazam, transforming her back. He uses his hand to prevent her speaking, then binds and gags her, telling her he will infect Earth. However the hornet stings him causing trouble for him, his foot pulls Mary's ropes off. She removes her gag and transforms, then takes her foe back. Shazam makes them merge into one being again, then the Marvel Family imprison them under the Rock once more. Shazam tells them it will take thousands of years for them to work up the strength to break free, and by then he will have other means of imprisoning them.
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- Green Lantern (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern (Volume 2)
- Green Lantern (Volume 3)
- Green Lantern (Volume 4)
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- Green Lantern (Volume 6)
- Green Lantern (Volume 7)
- The Green Lantern (Volume 1)
- The Green Lantern: Season Two (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern Corps (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern Corps (Volume 2)
- Green Lantern Corps (Volume 3)
- Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors (Volume 1)
- Green Lantern: New Guardians (Volume 1)
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- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (Volume 1)
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- Mary Marvel (Volume 1)
- Master Comics (Volume 1)
- Wow Comics (Volume 1)
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- Shazam!: The New Beginning (Volume 1)
- The Power of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder (Volume 1)
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- Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! (Volume 1)
- Shazam! (Volume 2)
- Shazam! (Volume 3)
- Shazam! (Volume 4)
- The New Champion of Shazam! (Volume 1)
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