Action Comics
#408
(January 1972)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 5
- Price
- 0.25 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-11-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff (credited) (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (credited) (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration. As printed in the indica, the volume number of "5" is likely a publisher typo and should have been 35. The previous issue is volume 34, and the next issue volume 35.
The Hero Superman Doomed to Die!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- B-1181
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Keywords
- spacecraft
The Hero Superman Doomed to Die!
Superman / comic story / 18 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates (credited)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited as Swan)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited as Anderson)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza (sourced)
- Job Number
- B-1164
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Morgan Edge; Sean Carter; Darkseid (mentioned)
- Synopsis
- Superman finds himself unable to rescue a stranded astronaut.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Interpresse, 1969 series) #59 -
in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #10/1972 ([oktober] 1972) -
in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #11/1972 (31 oktober 1972) -
in Superman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly (K. G. Murray, 1965 ? series) #104 (Circa 1973-1974) -
in Superman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1973 series) #15 (1980) -
in Superman Official Annual (Egmont UK, 1979 ? series) #1982 (1982)
-
The Shocking Secret of Super-X!
Superman / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates (credited)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited as Swan)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited as Anderson)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ray Holloway ?
- Job Number
- B-1172
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Clark Kent; Super-X; Lana Lang; Professor Smithers
- Synopsis
- Superman creates a new identity to prevent contaminating Earth with a strain of artificial bacteria.
- Reprints
-
in Batman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1972 series) #9 (2ème trimestre 1974) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #11-12/1975 ([november] 1975)
-
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #8 (November-December 1980) which is reprinted
-
Indexer Notes
Superman in college story.
The Atom's Phantom Double!
The Atom / comic story / 12.34 pages
- Script
- Gardner Fox (credited)
- Pencils
- Gil Kane (credited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- B-1179
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Atom [Ray Palmer]
- Synopsis
- A laboratory accident creates a ghostly duplicate of Ray Palmer, who wants to take the real Ray's place by destroying him.
- Reprints
- from The Atom (DC, 1962 series) #9 (October-November 1963)
-
Indexer Notes
Story in two parts of 5.67 and 6.67 pages.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Murray Boltinoff
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (logo illustration)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-1183
- Characters
- Superman
Indexer Notes
Letters from: Mark Lucke, Richard J. Kalina, Richard H. Morrissey, Sheila Jackson, Joe Farara.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Hero Superman Doomed to Die!
Superman -
1.
The Hero Superman Doomed to Die!
Superman -
2.
The Shocking Secret of Super-X!
Superman -
3.
The Atom's Phantom Double!
The Atom -
4.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is
This issue was modified by, among others
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Lars Brueder
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Bob Hughes
- Mike Nielsen
- Fawzy Partridge
- Tony R. Rose
- Allen Ross
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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