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Issue: Action Comics #689
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07098930410930
Price: $1.85 CAD
£0.70 GBP
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1993 Triangle #20.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
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Reign of the Supermen! Who Watches the Supermen?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Subject Matter
superhero
Last Son of Krypton; Superman
Kal-El [Superman; Clark Kent]; Superboy [as Superman]; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]; Steel [John Henry Irons]
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Who Is the Hero True? [Reign of the Supermen, Part 9]

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Last Son of Krypton
Superboy [as Superman]; Steel [John Henry Irons]; Cyborg Superman [Hank Henshaw]; Last Son of Krypton [as Superman]; Kal-El [Superman; Clark Kent]; Supergirl [Matrix]; Tana Moon; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Rex Leech; Gordon; Unit-12; Lex Luthor (villain); Mongul (villain)
The regeneration matrix at the Fortress releases another body, this one appearing to be the real Kal-El, i.e., Superman. Steel and the Last Son of Krypton battle to decide "the one true Superman." Mongul continues to approach Earth.
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Story continued from ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #502 and story continues in SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (DC, 1991 series) #24.
DC Universe 10

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
Subject Matter
Atom [Ray Palmer]; Connor Immonen; Steel silhouette
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Miscellaneous
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DC spotlight on the The Atom and other miscellaneous DC tidbits, including the birth of Stuart Immonen's son.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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typeset
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Letters from readers - Claudia Walker, David R. Dalton, Allan Lane, Frank Balkin, Kevin J. Conley, Mike Clark and Michael Hutchinson - and responses from Jennifer Frank.

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