Action Comics #218
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Super-Ape from Krypton," a rare 1956 Action Comics entry, Tommy and Brent—two men on leave from their duties—find themselves drawn to the Interplanetary Aquarium, a place brimming with strange alien life. When unrelenting rain floods the city, Tommy returns to the aquarium with a hunch, uncovering a shocking secret: one of the exhibits is no ordinary creature, but a sentient being from Uranus, using its powers to manipulate the weather. Written by Otto Binder and illustrated by Jim Mooney, with a striking cover by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye, this issue blends science fiction wonder with a quiet mystery that lingers long after the final page.
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Tommy and Brent are ordered to take two weeks leave because of stress. To relieve the boredom they visit the Interplanetary Aquarium, where a bewildering variety of unfamiliar species are on exhibit. When a deluge of rain falls unremittingly for many days, Tommy follows a hunch and returns to the Aquarium, where he finds one of the exhibits deliberately creating a torrent of rain. He confesses to be a civilized marine inhabitant of Uranus, sent as an advance scout in order to prepare for an invasion of the Earth.
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