Knowing of Superman's efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons and end the arms race, Lex Luthor met secretly with three unscrupulous top arms brokers, who dealt on the black market: American Harry Howler (William Hootkins) - a nuclear strategist and warmonger, Frenchman Jean Pierre Dubois (Jim Broadbent) - a nuclear warhead dealer, and eccentric "Mad Russian" General Romoff (Stanley Lebor).The message, from the private detective in Los Angeles, reports on his findings about Macreedy: "Never heard of him." In her suite while speaking to Dr.Hasslein and drinking Grape Juice Plus, she became intoxicated.He secretly tape-recorded their conversation as he further questioned her about the gorillas' war, and how she witnessed the Earth's destruction from their spaceship window: "We saw bright, white blinding light.Two live fawns in a small studio zoo were used as models for the young animated creatures, and many of the detailed drawings of the forest were based on photographs taken in the states of Maine and Vermont by Maurice "Jake" Day.