Action Comics #847 [Direct Sales]
(April 2007)

DC, 1938 Series
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Price
2.99 USD; 3.65 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2007-03-28
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [swirl]
Barcode
761941200019 84711
Editing
Matt Idelson (editor); Nachie Castro (associate)

Issue Notes

This issue went on sale four weeks late from the original shipping date and with different content than solicited (the solicited content ended up in issue 851).
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Renato Guedes (signed)
Inks
Renato Guedes (signed)
Colors
Renato Guedes (signed)
Letters
typeset
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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Intermezzo (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Dwayne McDuffie
Pencils
Renato Guedes
Inks
Renato Guedes
Colors
Renato Guedes
Letters
Travis Lanham
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (flashback); Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Sun-Eater (flashback)
Synopsis
Jonathan Kent is up in the middle of the night, trying to make coffee, even though he's not supposed to be having caffeine. Martha catches him, and together they worry about Clark, who has gone missing in the Last Son storyline. Jonathan remembers back to a time that he and Clark snuck away, and went to the fortress. Superman made a spaceship, and they took off to do some sightseeing. They received a distress signal; a star system was being threatened by a Sun-Eater. Superman found an alien fighter, trying to take a bomb to the Sun-Eater, but it got disabled. He took the bomb, and despite being bombarded with red sun radiation, carried it into the Sun-Eater, and detonated it. Exhausted, Superman couldn't out fly the explosion, but Jonathan caught up to him in the spaceship, and they escaped. They then returned to Earth, caught some fish as a cover story, and returned home. Jonathan tells Martha that they must never underestimate their son, no matter what the odds, and they go back to bed.
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Keywords
Fortress of Solitude; Sunstone crystal

DC Nation 54 [March 28, 2007] (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

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

[House Advertisements] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 8 pages (report information)

[Ads] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

advertisement / 4 pages (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Superman
  2. 1. Intermezzo
    Superman
  3. 2. DC Nation 54 [March 28, 2007]
    DC Nation
  4. 3. [House Advertisements]
  5. 4. [Ads]
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  • Ruben Cortes
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Jan Roar Hansen
  • Bob Hughes
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Martin Olsen
  • Allen Ross
  • Jim Van Dore
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