ACW #601 – Superman

Action Comics Weekly #601 – Superman
“Faster Than a Speeding Bullet!”
Writer – Roger Stern
Pencils – Curt Swan
Inks – John Beatty
Letters – Bill Oakley
Colors – Tom Ziuko
Editor – Mike Carlin

It’s funny that the weekly “two-pager” is the one that’s causing me the most grief when it came to undertaking this new blogging project.


Call it Catholic guilt, call it a mixture of stupidity and naivete… but, I really feel like I’m “short-changing” the readers even in just looking at the weekly eight-pagers… much less a two-page spread that’s written more like a Sunday strip than a traditional comic book!


Oh well, let’s get to it… this won’t take long.  It almost took longer to type out the credits than the actual synopsis!


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We open with Clark Kent stood atop the Daily Planet Building enjoying both the view and a beverage.  Among the voices he tunes into, he hears a man crying out for help.  Clark “supes up” and heads down to see what’s up.


Annnnnd, that’s it!

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Wow, this is really like a “day off” for your humble host.  I suppose I could make the joke that what we just read in two pages would take two issues in 2019… but, why ruin a good time?


Yeah… really not much to say about this.  I am happy that Curt Swan still has a presence in the Superman family of creators in the post-Crisis/post-Byrne landscape… so, there’s that.  Otherwise, we don’t get a whole lot to “sink our teeth into” just yet.


Gotta start somewhere… and this is that place!


Tomorrow: Deadman.  Do we gotta?  Maybe this will be the story where I’ll finally “get” the character!  So far, the only time I really cared about him was when he was no longer dead!