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Issue: Action Comics #688
Publication Date: July 1993
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Issues: #688 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 05/13/1993
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.85 CAD
£0.70 GBP
$1.50 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1993 Triangle #16.
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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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Reign of the Superman! Guy Gardner Chooses Sides!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Last Son of Krypton; Superman
Character(s): Guy Gardner; Last Son of Krypton [as Superman]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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An Eye for an Eye [Reign of the Supermen, Part 5]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Last Son of Krypton; Superman
Character(s): Last Son of Krypton [as Superman]; Guy Gardner; Lois Lane; Cat Grant; Superboy [as Superman]; Tana Moon; Inspector Maggie Sawyer (promoted from Captain); Commissioner Bill Henderson (promoted from Inspector)
Synopsis: Guy Gardner goes after the Last Son of Krypton, and after a brief scuffle, decides that he actually likes this new Superman.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Return of Superman #[nn] published December 1993
as An Eye for an Eye [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Story continues from ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #501 and story continues in SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (DC, 1991 series) #23.
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DC Universe 9

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Lobo; Guy Gardner
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Spotlight on LOBO: PORTRAIT OF A VICTIM. How to draw Guy Gardner by Joe Staton and Terry Beatty. Miscellaneous DC tidbits.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from readers - Jeremy Horn, Ben Herman, James Evans, Tim Madden, Kashif Husain, Colin H. Craig, Merlin the Magnificent, Steve Solomon and Joe Frank - and responses from Jennifer Frank.

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