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"Superman: "Superman's Energy-Crisis!"": A strange energy-drain causes Superman to consume mass quantities of food while the Toyman runs rampant. Superman discovers that solar energy is being drained somewhere deep inside the earth's core. S.T.A.R. laboratories creates a S

Quote1 Where does he put it all? He must be downing sixty hamburgers a minute! I think I'm gonna be sick! Quote2
Diners at Mactavish's hamburger restaurant

Action Comics #454 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 1975.

Synopsis for Superman: "Superman's Energy-Crisis!"

A strange energy-drain causes Superman to consume mass quantities of food while the Toyman runs rampant. Superman discovers that solar energy is being drained somewhere deep inside the earth's core. S.T.A.R. laboratories creates a Super Solar Cells suit that enables Superman to burrow into the earth's core where he discovers a freak hybrid of metal alloys that is absorbing the sun's energy and his own. Removing the solar suit he wraps it around the alloy thus neutralising its power.

Appearing in Superman: "Superman's Energy-Crisis!"

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  • Toyman's molasses gun
  • Toyman's jack-in-the-box dragon
  • Toyman's lariat
  • Toyman's scooter
  • Toyman's sleeping gas
  • Toyman's gravity-negating bubbles

Vehicles:

  • Toyman's plane


Synopsis for The Atom: "The Campus That Swallowed Itself!"

A groundskeeper accidentally activates the Actualizer, causing Ivy University to be inundated in a tide of creeping ivy, until the Atom finds a solution.

Appearing in The Atom: "The Campus That Swallowed Itself!"

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Other Characters:

  • Groundskeeper (Unnamed)

Locations:

  • Jean Loring's apartment
  • Ivy Town
    • Ivy University
    • The Physics Building at Ivy University
    • The Science Quad at Ivy University
    • The Biology Building at Ivy University
    • The Chemistry Building at Ivy University

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  • Actualizer

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Trivia

  • Joe Kubert art on "Tarzan Discovers the Land of the Prehistoric Animals" appears in a double page spread Pom Poms advertisment on the centre pages.


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