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Issue: Action Comics #442
Publication Date: December 1974
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Issues: #442 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: The Line of DC Super-StarsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications, Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/26/1974
Volume: 37
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #110.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Steve Lombard; Johnny Nevada; "Touch" McCoy
First Line: Somewhere in Metropolis a man is being murdered!
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #9/1975 published April 1975
as kein Titel [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Supacomic #195 published November 1975
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-1845
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Midnight Murder Show!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Steve Lombard; Johnny Nevada; "Touch" McCoy; Professor Pepperwinkle; Inspector Bill Henderson; Kurt Vonnegut and Ernest Hemingway lookalikes; Hank Aaron?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #9/1975 published April 1975
as Aktenzeichen 'Mordsache TV' [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Supacomic #195 published November 1975
as The Midnight Murder Show [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #6/1979 published January 1979
as Mord ved midnatt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #1 published September 1979
as The Midnight Murder Show! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Job Number: S-1833
Disclose Notes: From letter column of Action Comics #446, "Pepperwinkle was a character on the live-action Superman TV show."
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The Little Man from Mars!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Atom; Jean Loring; Professor Alpheus V. Hyatt
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #6/1976 published January 1976
as Der kleine Mann vom Mars [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGigant #1/1979 published February 1979
as Den lille mannen fra Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGigant #1/1979 published February 1979
as Mannen från Mars! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
Job Number: S-1836
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Time Pool story.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-1850
Disclose Notes: Header illustration of Clark Kent changing into Superman. Letters from: David Dasch, J. Douglas Wellington and Bob Rodi.

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