Action Comics Vol 1 877
From DC Database
If you're going to tell me Superman has come back to Earth, Lieutenant, I'm going to want a damn good reason as to how we missed that. 
Appearing in "The Sleepers (Part III)"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Az-Rel (First appearance)
- Nadira (First appearance)
- Ursa
- Project 7734
- General Sam Lane
- Mirabai
- Hart
- Lt. Hollister
- Sgt. Reyes
Other Characters:
- Icon (Cameo) (on a video monitor)
- Jimmy Olsen (Cameo) (on a video monitor)
- Mon-El (Cameo) (on a video monitor)
- Supergirl (Cameo) (on a video monitor)
- Tor-An (Final appearance; Dies)
Locations:
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "The Sleepers (Part III)"
Ursa awakens inside the Fortress of Solitude. Blind without her goggles, she fashions a blindfold for herself and comes upon the imprisoned sleeper agent Tor-An. Knowing that Tor-An knows too much to live, she executes him.
Meanwhile, Lor-Zod brings the dying Thara Ak-Var to Lois Lane and Clark's apartment. Lois calls upon the aid of Kimiyo Hoshi, aka Doctor Light, to help out. Doctor Light uses her powers to solar-charge Thara's Kryptonian cells in the hopes of stimulating her alien recuperative abilities. Lor-Zod then realizes that Ursa may still be alive and flies back to the Fortress.
General Sam Lane and his agents at Project 7734 track Lor-Zod's movements and realize where he is going. They fire missiles at the fortress and Lor-Zod takes to the air. He fires back at them with blasts of heat vision.
Meanwhile in New Paradise, Nevada, two more Kryptonian sleeper agents work as a veritable Bonnie & Clyde, knocking over banks. When the police arrive to arrest them, they kill them with blasts of heat vision.
Notes
- Issue shipped on May 13th, 2009.
- This issue is navigation number 25/2009.
- The events displayed on the cover never take place in this issue.
- Superman does not appear in this issue. He is currently on New Krypton as per Superman: World of New Krypton #3.
- DC Comics.com credits the artwork from this issue to Eddy Barrows and Ruy José, but it was actually done by Sidney Teles and Sandro Ribeiro.
- The "Bonnie & Clyde" Kryptonians will be identified as Az-Rel and Nadira in Action Comics #878. Both of these characters are based upon Pre-Crisis Phantom Zone Criminals.
- Mirabai will not be identified by name until Action Comics #879.
Trivia
- First DC Comics work for inker Sandro Ribeiro.
Related Articles
- World Without Superman
- World Without Superman image gallery
- Flamebird appearances
- Nightwing appearances
- Doctor Light appearances
- Lois Lane appearances
- Sam Lane appearances
- Ursa appearances
See Also
Recommended Reading
Links and References
- Action Comics at Wikipedia
- Action Comics series index at DC Indexes
- Action Comics series index at DCU Guide
- Action Comics series index at Comicbookdb.com
- Action Comics series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
