Descrizione
SUPERMAN
Dopo il n.60 la serie di Superman della Cenisio procede in ristrettezze, con l’albo che si riduce sensibilmente di dimensioni come il tarello dell’uomo d’acciaio quando viene a contatto con la kryptonite
ALBO ORIGINALE DEL 1982, EDITRICE CENISIO
questo numero contiene 1 storia completa di SUPERMAN in team-up congiunto con BATMAN , una di SUPERMAN da solo per conto suo, una di SUPERBOY e una di SUPERGIRL
CONDIZIONI : QUASI OTTIME
Superman & Batman: “The Twelve Coins of Power!” / le DODICI MONETE DEL POTERE !
May, 1981
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Doctor Zodiac
- Roscoe
- Carl
- Tony
Other Characters:
- Benny
- Ar-Phazel (Flashback only)
Locations:
Items:
- Bat-Signal
- Zodiac Coins
Vehicles:
Synopsis
Dr. Zodiac
seeks to steal twelve Atlantean coins bearing the signs of the Zodiac,
each of which will give him the powers of Zodiac symbols following a
strange ritual. Batman becomes aware of the plan when one if his coins is stolen from his private collection.
When Batman tells the information to Superman, who in turn goes to Atlantis
to learn the origin of the coins. While in the lost city, Superman is
attacked by Dr. Zodiac, who has gained the powers of the coins he has
already stolen.
Zodiac overpowers Superman and Batman on every occasion thanks to
his newfound powers and after a crime spree, there is only one coin
missing to grant him the entire powers of the Zodiac signs. Batman
prepares a trap to force Dr. Zodiac to steal a fake coin and when the
evil magician tries to use it, his powers are drained, as Superman had
learned that the whole process would revert if a regular coin was used
in the ritual. Thus, Dr. Zodiac is capture and all the stolen coins are
returned.
Featured Characters:
Antagonists:
- Cron (Father Nature) (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
- Margaret Wilson
- Journalism Club
- Alec
- Shanna
- Five Power Station Workers
- Nutra (Mother Nature) (Flashback only)
Locations:
- Earth-One
- Space
- Earth
- Metropolis
- High School
- Galaxy Communications Building (Flashback only)
- Clark Kent’s Office (Flashback only)
- Upstate Power Station
- Colorado
- North Pole
- South America
- Metropolis
- Earth
Items:
- Power Prong (Flashback only)
- Super-Computer (Flashback only)
- Detonator (Flashback only)
Synopsis
When a blackout hits the classroom in which Clark Kent is lecturing
to students, he regales them with the story of Superman’s battle against
Cron, an alien who attempted to destroy “Mother Nature”.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- A gang of kidnappers
- Rikko and his confederate
Other Characters:
- Dr. Elaine Crosley
- Dan Drayton
- Christopher Drayton
Locations:
Vehicles:
Synopsis
Dr. Elaine Crosley is out to find a way to supercharge her son, who
is above average but not up to her nor her ex-Decathlon champ husband’s
standards. Her reasoning that Superboy‘s powers must be recharged periodically from a power element leads her to Jor-El‘s rocket,
and thence to the discovery of Superboy’s double identity. But their
son is kidnapped, and rescued by Superboy. The two parents see their
error of not accepting their son for what he is, and subject themselves
to a hypnotic process that erases their knowledge of Superboy’s secret
identity.
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Val Myles
- Kam-Par (As an illusion)
- Allura In-Ze (Flashback only)
- Zor-El (Flashback only)
Locations:
- 20th Century
- Earth
- Santa Augusta
- Santa Augusta Airport
- New Athens Experimental School
- Santa Augusta
- Earth’s Moon
- Krypton
- Rao
- Survival Zone
- Earth
- Timestream
- 30th Century
- Metropolis
- Legion of Super-Heroes Headquarters
- Legion Plaza
- Metropolis
Items:
Vehicles:
- Kryptonian Rocket (Flashback only)
Concepts:
Synopsis
Linda Danvers emerges from an airplane into what should be Santa Augusta, but all of sudden she finds herself in Argo City,
now rebuilt. Linda soon realizes that it is an illusion, and her
surroundings shift back to Santa Augusta Airport. Feeling shaken, Kara
uses her telescopic vision to check on Argo City’s location.
Surprisingly, she finds Argo City in orbit around a yellow star instead
of drifting among the remains of Krypton. Even more shocking is the fact the city is whole again and the Argonians are alive.
Supergirl decides to investigate, so she heads into space. Upon arriving in Argo, she is told that, when Zor-El opened a portal to the Survival Zone, a weird kind of radiation leaked out and kept a number of Kryptonians
alive but frozen in a wraith-like state during many years until they
managed to summon her back to Argo thanks to a telepathic illusion. An
Argonian named Kam-Par
states that Zor-El’s density-intensifier might be able to turn them
solid again, but they ignore where Zor-El hid it. Kara says her father
disguised the intensifier as a table lamp, all and off sudden Argo City
disappears.
Kara guesses she was duped with another illusion by someone who
learned about her father’s device but ignored its secret location.
Supergirl intends to go to the real Argo City, but she can’t get there
due to the city orbiting around Rao and being contaminated by Kryptonite radiation. Via telescopic vision, Supergirl finds out that Universo has seized her father’s intensifier before vanishing.
Supergirl guesses he has returned to the 30th Century to attack the Legion of Super-Heroes
and time-travels to the future. Supergirl arrives just in time to warn
her fellow Legionnaires about Universo’s trap. Enraged, Universo fires
his weapon at her, but it does nothing. Supergirl quickly crushes the
intensifier -in reality, a table lamp- and beats Universo down. Then she
reveals she only pretended to be fooled, but she figured out someone
was trying to dupe her since the Argonians couldn’t have known about the
intensifier. After saying goodbye to her teammates and her crush Brainiac-5 she goes back to her own era.
Trivia
- It’s told Argo City remained in orbit around Rao, but this is a
mistake. In reality, the floating City drifted around space after the
destruction of Krypton.
