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Issue: Action Comics Annual #2
Publication Date: June 1989
 
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Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/13/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.25 CAD
£0.70 GBP
$1.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 21 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

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FlagSuperman #4 published January 1990
as Gestrandet auf Kriegswelt [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagSuper-Homem #84 published June 1991
as Transformado num gladiador estelar! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
FlagSuperman: Exile #[nn] published August 1998
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman in the Eighties #[nn] published June 2006
as Post-Crisis [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman: The Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude #[nn] published June 2012
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Video games just got easier to order!
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Inside front cover.
Memories of Krypton's Past

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superhero
Sen-M the Elder (flashback); the League of Life (flashback); Syra (flashback; dies); Tyr-N (flashback); Kaargl (villain, introduction); Eradicator (introduction)
The prison planet lies in the vast shadow of Warworld, the seat of power in this galaxy.
Superman fights and defeats Mongul's gladiators. The Cleric has an artifact from Krypton that he has been holding until the right person comes along.
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FlagSuperman #4 published January 1990
as Erinnerung an Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSupermann #3/1991 published April 1991
as Minner fra Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]22 pages
FlagSuper-Homem #84 published June 1991
as Lembranças de Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman: Exile #[nn] published August 1998
as Memories of Krypton's Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
FlagSuperman: The Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude #[nn] published June 2012
as Memories of Krypton's Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Story continued from Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #454 and story continues in Superman (DC, 1987 series) #32.
Get All Fired Up... for the Adventure of a Lifetime

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Role playing action-adventure password features 2 speed levels
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Between story pages 36 and 37.
Comic Book Conventions!

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May schedule
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Between story pages 36 and 37. Above the Badge A Minit ad.
Got a Minit? Make a Button!

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Only $29.95 gets you started
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Between story pages 36 and 37. Below the Great Eastern Conventions ad.
Take No Prisoners.

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Operation Wolf for your Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Between story pages 40 and 41.
Headquarters for Batman

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Between story pages 40 and 41. Above the DC Annuals promo.
DC Annuals 1989

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Featuring secrets of the DC Universe
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Between story pages 40 and 41. Below the "Headquarters for Batman" ad. Includes images of the covers of Batman Annual (DC, 1961 Series) #13 and Flash Annual (DC, 1987 Series) #3.
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Matrix

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Who's Who
For his own reasons, the sinister entity known as the Time Trapper created a pocket universe, including a duplicate of Earth.
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FlagSupermann #1/1991 published January 1991
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Cat Grant

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Who's Who
Catherine Grant first made her mark as a newspaper reporter on the West Coast, writing a gossip and interview column...
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FlagSupermann #1/1991 published January 1991
as Cat Grant [Character Profile on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Man of Steel welcomes George Pérez and Brett Breeding to the Superman team!
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Death Times Two!

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The Question and Green Arrow... the final face-off!
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Write Right Now!

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Sixteen ads for various products.
What's Hot This Summer? Just Us Leaguers!

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It's going to be a hot JLI summer!
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How I Spent My Super-Summer Vacation

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There I was, Cleveland, Ohio, the Superman Expo, June 16th, 1988. You know, somehow it all seemed so appropriate.
George Perez discusses how he became the writer of Action Comics.
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Don't Miss Out on Action Comics!

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DC
Deduct $1.00 from each Action, Adventures of Superman, and Superman subscription you order.
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"A Killer of a Bio..." -- Lois Lane, Daily Planet

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"Powerful -- both the man and his story..." -- Carole Bennet, Boston Globe Leader
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Between story pages 6 and 7. Includes image of the cover of Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography (DC, 1989 Series) and three panels of interior art.
Bubble Bobble Is Dyno-Might!

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(For your Nintendo Entertainment System.)
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Inside back cover.
Your Toughest Opponent Shouldn't Be the Rulebook.

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We think it's time that the rulebooks were on your side.
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Back cover.

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