DC Comics Presents, Vol. 1
#81
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DC Comics Presents, Vol. 1 #81
All This And Kobra Too! · Direct Edition · 1985
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Details
- Publisher
- DC Comics
- Cover date
- May 1985
- Format
- Comic
- Pages
- 32
- Variant
- Direct Edition
Credits
- writer
- Keith Giffen, Robert Loren Fleming
- penciller
- Keith Giffen
- inker
- Bob Oksner
- colorist
- Anthony Tollin
- letterer
- Bill Pearson
- editor
- Julius Schwartz
Story
While out running amok at a golf club, Ambush Bug comes across a strange rock, not knowing that it's really a chunk of Red Kryptonite. Leaving the golf club, he is unaware that he is being watched by minions of Kobra, who is interested in Ambush Bug. The Bug takes the Red Kryptonite to a jewelry shop to have it turned into a necklace that he wants to give to Superman as a peace offering because they've had a recent falling out. Upon travelling to the Fortress of Solitude, Ambush Bug arrives at a time Superman is exercising blind folded. In proximity of the Red Kryptonite, Superman and Ambush Bug end up switching bodies. Horrified, Superman asks Ambush Bug what about what they are going to do if there is a disaster in the next 48 hours, and the Bug decides that he is going to take advantage of being in Superman's body to do acts of good and flies out of the Fortress of Solitude, much to the Man of Steel's dismay, and because Superman is trapped in Ambush Bug's body, his Superman robots do not recognize him and ask him to identify himself. Ambush Bug however returns to his Detective Agency where he begins taking calls to take advantage of having Superman's body. Kobra comes by hoping to steal Ambush Bug's teleportation technology and is shocked to find that "Superman" is there instead and hastily leaves confident that the "Man of Steel" didn't recognize him out of his costume. Ambush Bug, puzzling over who the bald man must of been and mistakes him for Lex Luthor and goes after him, finding that he can hardly control Superman's super-speed and finds himself running around the world over and over. Back at the Fortress of Solitude, Superman has been locked in a cell and he tries to figure out how Ambush Bug's teleportation abilities work. While back in Metropolis, Ambush Bug's failed attempts at trying to stop Kobra leads to the water from being set ablaze. Superman finally manages to figure out the Bug's teleportation power and teleports himself near the battle. At this time the Red Kryptonite wears off and Superman and Ambush Bug are restored to their proper bodies. Superman allows Kobra to get away when he decides to stop the blaze, and causes a giant tidal wave to put out the fire, Ambush Bug finds himself washed up in it and hung from some of the debris from his pants. This cracks Superman up, and this further angers Ambush Bug who teleports away with out his pants which causes Superman to crack up even more. Meanwhile, back aboard his ship, Kobra orders his men to pilot a course outside of the DC Comics Universe.
Characters
Superman (Kal-El / Clark Kent) · Lana Lang · Ambush Bug (Irwin Schwab)
