Action Comics #245
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeFrom 1958, this ten-cent DC gem features one of Superman's most visually striking predicaments right on its cover by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye: a full-sized Superman stands with arms crossed while a rapidly shrinking version of himself dwindles into the distance, desperately calling out a farewell to Lois Lane, who holds the size-ray device responsible for his plight. The cover's split between the confident, life-sized Man of Steel and his tiny, helpless counterpart creates an immediately compelling tension, and the speech bubbles promise a story — written by Otto Binder with interior art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye — full of imagination and high-stakes drama. "The Shrinking Superman!" captures that wonderful late-1950s DC spirit where even the world's most powerful hero could be undone by a single, cleverly conceived gadget.
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Lois accidentally releases from Kandor the criminal Zak-Kul, who traps Superman in Kandor and takes over his life. Lois marries Zak-Kul thinking him Kal-El, but he tries to kill Lois because she keeps asking him Kal-El's secret id. Kal-El, trapped inside the "Krypton City," uses one of the three remaining specks of Illium-349 to shrink himself even smaller and slip between the atoms of Krypton City's jar, then uses the second speck to enlarge both himself and the third speck. Zak-Kul meanwhile futilely attempts to hide from Superman by disguising himself as a mild-mannered reporter.
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