Power Failure
Our story line is now starting to run continuously through Superman and Adventures of Superman, as the accumulated plot threads from the last year are coming together.
An alien ship crashes in the West River, Superman goes to investigate and unexpectedly starts losing his powers one by one. He's attacked by a Professor Killgrave escaping from prison. Although the book indicates that they've met before, this is actually Killgrave's first appearance. Surviving the fight with Killgrave, Superman figures out that he loses a power immediately after he uses it. Then on the last page he's challenged by an alien named Dreadnaught who claims another alien named Psi-Phon drained Superman's powers and transferred them to himself.
In between all this, Cat Grant takes Jimmy Olsen back to her apartment to seduce him. In the Arctic, that mysterious new Supergirl decides to fly to Smallville, although she still can't remember why. Visiting the Daily Planet, Jimmy Olsen's mother sees an old picture of Perry White with a man in the background who looks like her husband who was presumed dead in Vietnam (this plot thread will resume over a year later in Superman #39). And Lex Luthor has his kryptonite-poisoned right hand amputated and replaced with a mechanical prosthetic.
A powerless Superman flees from Psi-Phon and Dreadnaught. Aquaman comes to the rescue, but starts to lose his powers too. Fellow Justice Leaguers Elongated Man, Martian Manhunter, and Captain Marvel also try to help, and in turn have their powers drained and transferred to Dreadnaught. Clark Kent finds Professor Hamilton to borrow his force field, which the aliens are unable to steal or stop. The defeated aliens conveniently give a full explanation of their plan before they disappear into vapor. It turned out none of the powers were actually stolen, it was just psychosomatic. Lois Lane, who just brought Jose Delgado home from the hospital, is horrified to see Clark Kent acting as a vigilante now too. And that amnesiac Supergirl arrives in Smallville and bumps into Lana Lang.
Lana Lang flashes back to when she went searching for Clark in Metropolis, finding Superman instead. The rest of the issue is bogged down with the shoehorned Manhunter plot from Millennium, and tries to reconcile Lana's lifelong mind control with the events in Man of Steel. Thankfully, future writers wouldn't call back to this story, but it does establish post-Crisis Lana's role as Superman's friend.
This mini-series has basically been two two-part stories: Martha Kent's first marriage and Lana Lang's post-Millennium resolution.
Superman #19
In between all this, Cat Grant takes Jimmy Olsen back to her apartment to seduce him. In the Arctic, that mysterious new Supergirl decides to fly to Smallville, although she still can't remember why. Visiting the Daily Planet, Jimmy Olsen's mother sees an old picture of Perry White with a man in the background who looks like her husband who was presumed dead in Vietnam (this plot thread will resume over a year later in Superman #39). And Lex Luthor has his kryptonite-poisoned right hand amputated and replaced with a mechanical prosthetic.
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The World of Smallville #4
This mini-series has basically been two two-part stories: Martha Kent's first marriage and Lana Lang's post-Millennium resolution.
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