Action Comics
#368
(October 1968)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.12 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly (semi-monthly, March)
- On-sale Date
- 1968-08-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
Superman DC National Comics
- Editing
- Mort Weisinger (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- They don't need Superman anymore...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
- Keywords
- newspapers
in Indexer Notes
Credits originally Ross Andru and Mike Esposito on this cover. An auction on Ebay sold the original art signed by Carmine Infantino (from Brian Hayes June 27, 2006). Possible Esposito inks per Nick Caputo.
The Unemployed Superman!
Superman / comic story / 12.67 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Mr. Mxyzptlk; Perry White; the Tuxedo Gang; "Banker" Blake; Sentinels; Phantom Zone inhabitants [Jax-Ur]
- Synopsis
- Returning from a trip to space, Superman is puzzled to learn that there is no more crime on Earth, and natural disasters have ceased also. Space beings called the Sentinels claim responsibility and convince him to leave Earth, where he is no longer needed.
- Reprints
-
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #116 (Circa April 1969)
-
- Keywords
- Fifth Dimension; Krypton; Phantom Zone
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits from Bob Hughes, via the GCD Error Tracker; the original indexer credited the pencils to Ross Andru and the inks to Mike Esposito.
Supergirl's Stand to Save Stanhope!
Supergirl / comic story / 10 pages
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Supergirl; Superman; Alpha; Beta-Zin; David Carew
- Synopsis
- Supergirl defeats future criminals Alpha and Beta and their plot to change history. Law enforcement officials from the future reveal that they prevented Supergirl from exposing herself to Gold Kryptonite, but hypnotized her into thinking that she had indeed lost her powers.
- Reprints
-
in Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus (DC, 2016 series) #2 ([July] 2018)
-
- Keywords
- Gold Kryptonite; time travel
Indexer Notes
Story continued from the previous issue.
[no title indexed]
Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell ?
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (logo illustration)
- Inks
- George Klein (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
letters submitted by Joe Blenkle; Kenneth Morton; William Read; Jeff Sanderson; Kevin Zimmerman; Tom O'Herin; Jack Silver; Delores Fendley; Shelly A. Van Geffen
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["They don't need Superman anymore..."]
Superman -
1.
The Unemployed Superman!
Superman -
2.
The Zeroids Are Here!
The Zeroids; Ideal Toys -
3.
Supergirl's Stand to Save Stanhope!
Supergirl -
4.
Your Demand Is Our Command!
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5.
[no title indexed]
Metropolis Mailbag
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Ray Bottorff Jr
- Nick Caputo
- John Censullo
- John Monagle
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Jim Van Dore
- Bjorn Wallin
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