Superman #391 is an issue of the series Superman (Volume 1) with a cover date of January, 1984.
Synopsis for "Who Stole the Newswoman of the Year!"
Srakka, as Vartox, kidnaps Lana Lang, and Superman is unable to retrieve her.
Appearing in "Who Stole the Newswoman of the Year!"
Featured Characters:
- Superman (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Lana Lang (Flashback and main story)
- Perry White (Cameo)
- Lois Lane
- Jimmy Olsen
- Justin Moore
- Kent Family
- Jonathan Kent (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Martha Kent (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Wallace "Wally" Gurkheim (Unnamed)
Antagonists:
- Srakka
- Vartox (Possessed) (Flashback and main story)
- Three Bank Robbers
- Squeezy (Single appearance)
- Grunt (Single appearance)
- Wheels (Single appearance)
Other Characters:
- Metropolis Corps of Broadcast Journalists (Unnamed) (Final appearance)
- Two Security Guards (Unnamed) (Single appearance)
- Metropolis Police Department
- Princess Diana (Mentioned only)
- Sixth Western Cluster Precinct (Mentioned only)
- Goopel (Law Enforcement Officer from Lyra-Eight) (Single appearance; dies)
Locations:
- Space
- Krypton (Cameo) (Flashback only) (Destroyed)
- Dybbuk (Mentioned only)
- Lyra-Eight (Mentioned only)
- Earth
- Metropolis
- Convention Hall
- Banquet Hall
- Galaxy Communications Building (Flashback and main story)
- Cafeteria
- Gurkheim Residence
- Metropolis University (Mentioned only)
- First State Bank
- Convention Hall
- North Pole
- Smallville (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Volcano
- Metropolis
Items:
- Expanding Waves of Photon Energy (Destroyed)
- Superman's Giant Computer (Destroyed)
- Daily Planet newspaper
- Lana Lang Mannequin
Vehicles:
- Kryptonian Rocket (Cameo) (Flashback only)
- Goopel's Spacecraft (Destroyed)
Notes
- Lana Lang is named Newsperson of the Year for her exclusive interview between Middle Eastern leaders Ben-David and Ali Kyamm.
Trivia
- Lana Lang contemptuously refers to the Srakka-posessed Vartox as a "virus," although she does not learn of Srakka's nature as a sentient virus until the following issue.
- Srakka's species is given as "Dybbuk" by Goopel. In Hebrew folklore, a dybbuk is a malevolent ghostly spirit that possesses the bodies of the living, similar to the antagonistic alien creature's M.O.