Action Comics #398

(March 1971)

The Pied Piper of Steel (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 14 pages (report information)

Script

Leo Dorfman

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

Murphy Anderson

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-869

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Morgan Edge; Cy Harkin

Synopsis

Rock promoter Cy Harkin develops a method of mind control that is transmitted through the music of the concerts he runs so that he can order the teenage fans to tear down the college that once fired him.

Reprints

• in Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers, 1971 series) (1971) [partial black and white]
• in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #15/1972 (22. Juli 1972)
• in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #46 (octobre 1972)
• in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #172 (Circa December 1973)
• in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, 1983 series) (1983)

Keywords

Daily Planet globe; Fortress of Solitude; Kandor; rock music; WGBS

Indexer Notes

In this issue, Morgan Edge orders the Daily Planet globe removed from the building and transfers Clark from the Planet to become a roving television reporter.

Spawn of the Unknown (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman; Untold Tales of the Fortress / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Leo Dorfman [as Geoff Brown]

Pencils

Curt Swan

Inks

Murphy Anderson

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

B-881

Genre

superhero

Characters

Superman; Supergirl; Professor Bruno

Synopsis

Superman encounters a strange species of plant that alters its appearance to that of animals and humans nearby.

Reprints

• in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #6/1975 ([juni] 1975)
• in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #3 (septembre 1976)

Keywords

Fortress of Solitude

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Where the Action Is / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Script

E. Nelson Bridwell ?

Letters

typeset

Job Number

B-917

Indexer Notes

letters submitted by Rudy Rankins; Gerard Triano; Gregory Kent

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

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1970
Average number of copies sold preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 329,925
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 364,358
Owner: National Periodical Publications, Inc., 909 Third Avenue, N.Y., N.Y. 10022, wholly owned by Kinney National Service, Inc., 10 Rockefeller Plaza, N.Y., N.Y. 10020, a publicly-held corporation