The World's Greatest Superheroes Part 7: The Shrunken Superman
It's tough times for Jimmy Olsen as Superman's recently-elastic pal gets his atoms unexpectedly shuffled, stolen, and shrunk in a story that introduces Brainiac to the World's Greatest Superheroes' roster of rogues ! A shadowy figure has turned Metropolis' electronics against its citizens! Typewriters are turned into cannons , the teletype becomes a strangling creature with paper arms of death , and newspaper readers around America are introduced to shibari as Lois Lane is nearly squeezed to death by telephone wires . At the core of all of this is Brainiac , "The Living Computer," swinging by Earth to miniaturize a couple of cities and maybe take a little revenge on Superman (if there's time). One of Superman's oldest foes, Brainiac has nonetheless waited a long time to make his newspaper comic debut. His first opportunity was back in 1958, during the run of the original Superman comic strip. When the villain was showing up on newsstands in...