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Issue: Action Comics #356
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Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
On Sale Date: 09/28/1967
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.12 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets1
 
 
Son of the Annihilator!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman; Annihilator
Reprinting
FlagSuperman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] published January 1983
as Superman in the 1960s [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
1
From a discussion with Neal Adams in Denver, in 2017, about Lois Lane 79, this book could be Neal Adams' first Superman art which got published; per the On-sale date, this book came out after Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane 79, which also has a Neal Adams Superman cover and is technically the first published Superman piece.
The Son of the Annihilator!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Annihilator [Karl Keller]; Perry White; Pocketbook Pete; President Lyndon Baines Johnson
The Annihilator wants to set up a secret identity like Superman, so he "adopts" Pocketbook Pete, a young hoodlum, who decides to use the Annihilator's Kryptonian chemicals to give himself super-powers also.
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
14
Never Too Late... to Get on the Bomba Trail!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
jungle
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Miscellaneous
1
house ad for Bomba the Jungle Boy (DC, 1967 series) #1, on sale September 12
[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
? (logo illustration)
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
Letters submitted by Dan Dias, Jeff Mazo, Ophelia G. Ortiz, Lois Humburd, Eddie Newton, Bob Muschal, and Patricia McKay.
The Girl of Straw!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Supergirl [also appears as Linda Danvers]; Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Dick Malverne; Comet; Mrs. Hart; Zor-El (flashback)
Supergirl worries when she discovers that she is losing her super-powers.
Reprinting
FlagSuperman #2/1968 published January 1968
as Die Strohpuppe [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
Miscellaneous
11
The Winning Number Is 3!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
Subject Matter
superhero
Justice League of America
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
house ad for Justice League of America (DC, 1960 series) #58 [80 Page Giant #G-41], on sale September 21
[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
?
?
typeset
Reprinting
 
Miscellaneous
1
listing of DC comics on sale the first week of October 1967; includes cover art for Our Army at War (DC, 1952 series) #187 and The Adventures of Bob Hope (DC, 1950 series) #108

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