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Issue: Action Comics #893
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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
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Volume: none
Pages: 44
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UPC/EAN: 07447030410493
Price: $3.99 CAD
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Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: "Printed by Quad/Graphics, Montreal, QC, Canada. 09/22/10."
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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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Gorilla Grodd's Next Meal: Lex!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Subject Matter
superhero
Lex Luthor; Gorilla Grodd; Jimmy Olsen (headshot)
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The Black Ring Part Four

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Lex Luthor; Robot Lois Lane [RoboLois]; Gorilla Grodd; Ms. Jessup [as Ms. Jessop]; Mr. Finch; Mr. Spalding; Mr. Cardington (flashback); Death of the Endless (cameo)
Luthor and his team continue their quest for the Black Ring energy, this time to Uganda, where they are being monitored by Gorilla Grodd. Grodd sends his apes to kidnap RoboLois, discovering she's a robot. He then attacks the team directly, beheading Luthor with his combat spoon and eating his head; but he finds it's another robot. Instead, Luthor has infiltrated Grodd's headquarters, where a black sphere is. After getting what they want, they escape in a chopper, but Grodd returns in time to shoot Luthor with a raygun rifle, and Luthor falls to a likely death.
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Story continued from the previous issue and continues in the next issue.
Jimmy Olsen's Big Week Day One

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Jimmy Olsen; Great Djinni (flashback); Superman (flashback); Chloe Sullivan (introduction); Rory; Kev; Sebastien Mallory (introduction)
After looking back at a time he became a genie to defeat the Great Djinni, Jimmy plays the Superman video game while being dumped by Chloe Sullivan. His friends try to cheer him up by taking him to a club, but they get bumped from their table by Sebastien Mallory, who is accompanied by Chloe (who is doing a story on him). Jimmy and Sebastien try to one-up each other, but Jimmy brags he will stop an alien invasion, which just started as they were talking.
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Story continues in the next issue. This story is the first in-continuity appearance of the character Chloe Sullivan, who was first introduced in the Smallville TV show in 2001.
Teen Titans #88 Special Sneak Preview

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
superhero
Teen Titans [Beast Boy [Gar Logan]; Kid Flash [Bart Allen]; Raven [Rachel Roth]; Ravager [Rose Wilson]; Superboy [Conner Kent; Kon-El]; Wonder Girl [Cassie Sandsmark]]; Aqualad [Jackson Hyde]; Barney; Mr. Caligan; Deathstroke [Slade Wilson]
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Previews 5 pages of Teen Titans (DC, 2003 series) #88 on sale in October.
The End is Near [September 29, 2010]

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typeset
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Ian talks about the Superman/Batman Apocalypse animated original movie. Appears on page 42 in this issue.
House Advertisements

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House ads for: Superman: Earth One, Justice Society of America #44, and Teen Titans #88. Appear in various places in this issue.
Ads

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Total of 4 one-page ads for: Captain Underpants: Ook and Gluk Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future (book, Scholastic), New York Comic Con #5 (convention, Reed Pop), September is Library Card Sign-up Month with Dwayne Wade (American Library Association), and Pokemon HeartGold Version/SoulSilver Version (video game, Nintendo). Appear in various places in this issue.

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