J.L Horner is a magnificent man who spends his time away from his charity work writing fanciful, questionably true, third-person biographies. He is unhappily married and delights in penning ridiculous fiction that people would be mad to buy. He is currently searching for someone to market him better.
Dick Gayson is frustrated. His superhero alter-ego Octoman is on the ropes and the people of Mecockolis are growing tired of his haphazard antics. His girlfriend and Daily Thompson co-worker, Blois Bane, think it might be high time he hung up the lycra and turned his back on a life of crime-fighting, but things aren't always that easy....