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Issue: Action Comics #408
Publication Date: January 1972
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Issues: #408 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [character]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/30/1971
Volume: 5
Pages: 52
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.25 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (3 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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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Adult Image
Title Page
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The Hero Superman Doomed to Die!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1181
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The Hero Superman Doomed to Die!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Morgan Edge; Sean Carter; Darkseid (mentioned)
Synopsis: Superman finds himself unable to rescue a stranded astronaut.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #10/1972 published October 1972
as En superhelts fall [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Presents Wonder Comic Monthly #104 published January 1973
as The Hero Superman Doomed to Die [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Superband #15 published January 1980
as Die Superblamage [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 18
Job Number: B-1164
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The Shocking Secret of Super-X!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #11-12/1975 published November 1975
as Super-X's sjokkerende hemmelighet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #8 [Direct Sales] published November 1980
as The Shocking Secret of Super-X! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: B-1172
Disclose Notes: Superman in college story.
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The Atom's Phantom Double!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): 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.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagThe Atom #9 published October 1963
was The Atom's Phantom Double! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 12.34
Job Number: B-1179
Disclose Notes: Story in two parts of 5.67 and 6.67 pages.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superman
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-1183
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Mark Lucke, Richard J. Kalina, Richard H. Morrissey, Sheila Jackson, Joe Farara.

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