Action Comics #686 [Direct]
(February 1993)

DC, 1938 Series
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Price
1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD; 0.60 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1993-01-07
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike Carlin (editor); Jennifer Frank (assistant)

Issue Notes

1993 Triangle #8.
This issue has variants:

Funeral for a Friend/6: Who's Buried in Superman's Tomb? (Table of Contents)

Supergirl / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Butch Guice (signed)
Inks
Butch Guice (signed)
Colors
Denis Rodier
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero
Characters
Supergirl [Matrix]
Reprints
Keywords
cemeteries; graveyards; tombstones

Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

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Who's Buried in Superman's Tomb? [Funeral for a Friend, Part 6] (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Roger Stern
Pencils
Butch Guice
Inks
Denis Rodier
Colors
Glenn Whitmore
Letters
Bill Oakley
Genre
superhero
Characters
Supergirl [Matrix]; Guardian [Jim Harper]; Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Captain Maggie Sawyer; Dan Turpin; Inspector Bill Henderson; Dubbilex; Paul Westfield; Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire]; Tommy [Thomas Thompkins]; Big Words [Anthony Rodriguez]; Dr. Walter Johnson; Jorge Lopez; Dr. Carl Packard; Lex Luthor (villain); Sydney Happersen (villain); Gretchen Kelley (flashback; villain)
Synopsis
Supergirl and the Metropolis S.C.U. continue to search the tunnels for Superman's coffin. Guardian confronts Director Westfield about stealing Superman's corpse, and agrees to let Cadmus continue its attempts to clone Superman.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story continued from ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #499 and story continues in SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (DC, 1991 series) #21.

You May Think It's Not Your Problem... Think Again. (Table of Contents: 2)

Robin / public service announcement / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Tom Lyle
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Robin [Tim Drake]; Alfred Pennyworth
Keywords
AIDS

Indexer Notes

Public service announcement to raise AIDS-awareness.

DC Universe [R.I.P. Superman] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

DC Universe / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Re: Action / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Jennifer Frank
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Joe Kucharski III, D.A. Burd, J.M. Smith, Jim Jackson, Kevin W. Whitaker, Kent Phenis, Paul N. Hicks and Delmo Walters, Jr. - and responses from Jennifer Frank.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Funeral for a Friend/6: Who's Buried in Superman's Tomb?
    Supergirl
  2. 1. Who's Buried in Superman's Tomb? [Funeral for a Friend, Part 6]
    Superman
  3. 2. You May Think It's Not Your Problem... Think Again.
    Robin
  4. 3. DC Universe [R.I.P. Superman]
    DC Universe
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Re: Action
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