Action Comics Vol 1 645

"My Lady Maxima!": Maxima comes to Earth looking for Superman to take him as her mate. She finds out that the people of the Daily Planet might know something about Superman's residence. She visits them, but they are not useful to her search eithe

Action Comics #645 is an issue of the series Action Comics (Volume 1) with a cover date of September, 1989. It was published on August 10, 1989.

Synopsis for "My Lady Maxima!"

Maxima comes to Earth looking for Superman to take him as her mate. She finds out that the people of the Daily Planet might know something about Superman's residence. She visits them, but they are not useful to her search either, so she leaves them in some sort of hypnotic trance and disappears from the scene. Clark arrives at the Planet and finds his coworkers in that zombie-like state. Clark wakes them up, and they tell him about Maxima.

Maxima decides to flush Superman out by making a riot at City Hall. Superman arrives at the scene and disables Maxima's soldiers, then confronts her inside the Hall. Sazu strikes Superman with a telepathic attack, but she thinks Superman is not worthy to be Maxima's mate because he refused to kill his opponents. So Sazu betrays Maxima and destroys her simulacrum form, disappearing from Earth. Superman breaks free from the telepathic attack, knocking Sazu unconscious. Maxima reappears in her spaceship, determined to return to Earth and take Superman for herself.

Appearing in "My Lady Maxima!"

Featured Characters:

• Superman

Supporting Characters:

• Dan Turpin
• Emil Hamilton
• Jimmy Olsen (Flashback and main story)
• Jonathan Kent (Flashback only)
• José Delgado (Flashback and main story)
• Lana Lang (Flashback and main story)
• Lois Lane (Flashback and main story)
• Maggie Sawyer
• Martha Kent (Flashback only)
• Matrix (Flashback only)
• Perry White

Antagonists:

• Maxima (First appearance)
• Sazu

Other Characters:

• Starman
• Captain Benson
• Frank Berkowitz

Locations:

• Arizona
• Metropolis
  • Suicide Slum
  • Daily Planet
  • 1938 Sullivan Place
• Kansas
  • Smallville
  • Lowell County

Items:

Vehicles:

Notes

• This issue is reprinted in Superman: The Exile & Other Stories Omnibus and in Adventures of Superman: George Pérez.
• Superman and Starman joined forces to fight Parasite in Starman #14.
• Maxima returns in Action Comics #651

See Also

• Cover gallery for the Action Comics series

Recommended Reading

• Superman Recommended Reading

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