Action Comics #233
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWhat a delightfully absurd Silver Age premise! The cover by Curt Swan (inked by Stan Kaye) depicts a suited Clark Kent being stopped at the border of the "Kingdom of Borgonia," where a guard in a Superman costume sternly warns that every man, woman, and child must wear an imitation Superman costume — on penalty of death — while Clark's thought balloon cheekily reveals he's already wearing the genuine article underneath his suit. In the background, more Superman-costumed citizens mill about, making this 1957 issue's story, "The Land of a Million Supermen," one of the most charmingly peculiar setups the Man of Steel faced that decade.
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Clark and Lois are flying over Borgonia, when the plane develops engine trouble. Clark bails out and is amazed upon landing safely by parachute to find a reception committee who insist that he put on a Superman costume, under penalty of death. Everyone, male, female and child, wears the costume by order of the country's dictator, Torm.
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