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... young@hotmail.com. In the meantime, you may consider the following 16 tunes to be the best tracks of August 2003: -=- THE BEST OF THE BEST -=- "World #204" - Graff - light rock ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/parties/2001/addictanniversary01/mmul/world204.zip -=- THE REST OF THE BEST -=- "Acid Maintenance" - Keith303 - dance ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/artists/keith303/k303main.zip "Checksum Error" - Breakthru - pop http://www.users.ch/portela/breakthru/xm/brk_chk.zip "Discovery" - Temezo & T-Tracker - dance http://www.modarchive.com/cgi-bin/downloa ...

... quired -- the _Action Comics Archives_, Volumes 1 and 2. These are great! Reprints of the first issues of _Action Comics_ -- Volume 1 from #1 through #20 and Volume 2 from #21 through #36 -- showcasing the Man of Steel in all his pre-wartime glory. This was before Superman faced such outrageous villains as Brainiac and Metallo and Lex Luthor (although Superman did face the Ultra-Humanite in these early days, who was a mad scientist along the same lines as the pre-Crisis Luthor), but instead really fought for "Truth, Justice, and the American Way" by helping the little guy against insurance scams and labor laws and that sort of thing. The reason ...

... ve to go out with a bang! Unfortunately, Denny O'Neil and Dick Dillin could only produce a misfire. "Vengeance of the Tomb Thing" in _World's Finest_ #202 (May 1971) starts with Superman flying through a thunderstorm and being blasted by a lightning bolt (excuse me, "a tongue of blue-white fire"). The downed Superman is found by a group of Arab desert bandits who, coincidentally, are pursuing an archaeological expedition being reported on by Lois Lane. They are searching for the tomb of Malis, an ancient ruler of murky and mystical memory. When Superman turns out to have lost his memory, Bedouin Brakh convinces him that he is a member of his gan ...

... remembers Pa Kent yelling at him not to fly in the window because people might see him. He remembers the "Rip Van Winkle of Smallville" (_Adventure_ #208). He remembers an emergency when he was taking the train to Metropolis for the first time when a cave-in blocked the tunnel, but he was able to change to Superman in the darkness. He remembers battling "It" (_Action_ #162) and his greatest nemesis, Lois Lane, to protect his secret identity. He remembers plugging a hole in a dam while dressed as Clark because he just didn't have time to change. He flies back to erase Clark's shoe prints (pressed into the dam while carrying the heavy boulder) bu ...

... The Phantom Zone Supergirl's 25th Anniversary In honor of Supergirl's 40th anniversary, Scott Devarney looks back at Action Comics #555 and Supergirl #20, two issues published for Supergirl's 25th anniversary. Superman Stories Legends -- The Miniseries Sean Hogan looks at the crossover that followed up Crisis, in which Darkseid tried to turn the people of Earth against its heroes, and how this event affected Superman. EDITORIAL STAFF: --------------- Jeffery D. Sykes, Publisher and Co-Editor-in-Chief Shane Travis, Co-Editor-in-Chief and Executive Editor of Comic Reviews Neil Ottenstein, Executive Editor of STAS Reviews DISCLAIMERS: ----------- S ...