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Issue: Action Comics #643
Publication Date: July 1989
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Issues: #643 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 06/08/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.50 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (1 story, 1 cover)
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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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Superman Returns to Action Comics

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagStålmannen #3/1991 published ?
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Exile #[nn] published August 1998
as Superman Returns to Action Comics [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Eighties #[nn] published June 2006
as Superman and Beyond [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cover is an homage to the cover of Superman (DC, 1939 series) #1.
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[untitled]

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First Line: It takes more than guts to command Airwolf.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Superman on Earth

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Turmoil (villain)
First Line: Metropolis: A vista of stone and steel. Towering walls reverberate with the echoes of the city.
Synopsis: Superman returns to Earth, and must rescue Lois Lane and Gangbuster from Turmoil.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman in Action Comics #7 published January 1991
as Superman auf der Erde [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Exile #[nn] published August 1998
as Superman on Earth [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-4755
Disclose Notes: Story continued from Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #455 and story continues in Superman (DC, 1987 series) #34.
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Take No Prisoners.

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First Line: Operation Wolf for your Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Pages: 1
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Introducing a Winning Combination for Breakfast.

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First Line: Introducing the Nintendo Cereal System
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Get All Fired Up... for the Adventure of a Lifetime

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First Line: Role playing action-adventure password features 2 speed levels
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 8 and 9.
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Earn Famous Name Prizes or Eartn $100 an Item Cash

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First Line: Sell cards & gifts from free sales catalog!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 8 and 9.
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Sunlight Rising

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First Line: John Sunlight is the only man to ever face Doc Savage twice...
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First Line: Video games just got easier to order!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 15 and 16.
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[untitled]

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 15 and 16.
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Comic Book Conventions!

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First Line: June schedule
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 19 and 20. Above the "Headquarters for Batman" ad.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Headquarters for Batman
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 19 and 20. Below the Great Eastern Conventions ad.
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Write Right Now!

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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 19 and 20. Sixteen ads for various products.
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Blood Is Thicker

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First Line: Orion returns to Darkseid's fold!
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Bubble Bobble Is Dino-Might!

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First Line: (For your Nintendo Entertainment System.)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Fightin' Drivin' Zappin'

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First Line: The Adventures of Bayou Billy for Nintendo
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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