DC Released February 1973

Action Comics #421

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Published February 1973
Pages 32

THE FANTASTIC FEATS OF CAPTAIN STRONG! / THE HEADLINE MAKER! Superman encounters Captain Strong, who becomes super-powerful by eating seaweed grown from alien spores. After saving patrons from a burning theater and trading bon mots with a press agent, Green Arrow switches to Oliver Queen and helps Dinah Lance open her new flower shop in Star City; Since he needs a job, he is inspired to become a press agent, and promises to get Dinahs shop in the headlines; Not long afterward, he spies hitman Lucas Branson, learns he is about to perform a killing, and phones the city newspapers saying that Green Arrow will take down Branson in front of Dinahs shop.

Key Facts

  • 1st appearance of Captain Horatio Strong, a character reminiscent of Popeye who gains his strength from an organic seaweed called Sauncha