Action Comics #212
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Superman Calendar," a 1956 Action Comics classic, Devious Thorne Varden poses as a calendar publisher, pitching a Superman-themed fundraiser for the Planet charity—only to set a trap with a seemingly impossible task. With Al Plastino handling both the interior art and the cover, the issue captures Superman facing a unique challenge: posing for a November shot that requires him to return home for Thanksgiving, forcing him to navigate the risk of exposing his secret identity.
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Devious Thorne Varden claims to be a calendar publisher, and offers to donate all profits from a Superman calendar to the Planet charity fund. He asks Superman to pose for a dozen shots performing feats which he has sketched, one of which, Varden tells his henchmen, is impossible. If Superman fails to deliver the shots, Varden keeps the profits for himself. The November shot shows Superman going home for Thanksgiving, but to do so would expose his secret identity. Instead of returning to the Kent home in Kansas he takes the photographer into space, where the planet Krypton had previously been.
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