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Issue: Action Comics #422
Publication Date: March 1973
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Issues: #422 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [circle]View Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 01/30/1973
Volume: 36
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 5 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #92.
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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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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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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
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Assets2
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Statement of Ownership
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Woodrow Nescott
First Line: Gee, Superman... If only you were real...
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #14/1973 published July 1973
as kein Titel [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #3/1975 published March 1975
as TV-showet som truet Metropolis! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSuperserien #8/1983 published January 1983
as Truselen mot Metropolis [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-1430
Disclose Notes: Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Woodrow Nescott; Herbert Nescott; Kerry Nescott; Ted; Mac Nelson; Dan Marz
First Line: A spectacular, eye-popping feat -- nothing more than a morning exercise for the greatest hero of them all...
Synopsis: Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #14/1973 published July 1973
as Die Fernsehserie mit Mordeffekt [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Supacomic #179 published September 1974
as The TV Show that Menaced Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #3/1975 published March 1975
as TV-showet som truet Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #25 [Direct Sales] published June 1982
as The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperserien #8/1983 published January 1983
as Truselen mot Metropolis [Story on Interior Page(s)]2. translation
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14.67
Job Number: S-1391
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.67
Job Number: S-1433
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[untitled]

Statement of Ownership  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Average circulation in the previous year is 253,000.
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The Shadows-of-Yesterday Contract!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Luigi; Hyram Walsh
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagLynvingen #1/1974 published January 1974
as Skygger fra fortida [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: S-1426
Disclose Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The origin of Human Target continues in #423.

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