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Issue: Action Comics #1
Publication Date: November 2011
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Issues: #1 of 129 Issues (446 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Jim Lee / Scott Williams Cover
Rating: Rated T Teen
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [swirl]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 09/07/2011
Volume: none
Pages: 44
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 76194130637700121
Price: $3.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Rated T Teen
Content Items: 1 (0 stories, 1 cover)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Matt Idelson (Editor); Wil Moss (Associate Editor)
Disclose Notes: Retailers were able to purchase as many copies of this variant edition as their lowest-ordered DCU title released during the same week.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: ongoing series
Format Notes:  
Disclose Variants9
Disclose Reprinted In4
reprinted as/ in another Issue.
reprinted 3 times as Content Items in other Issues.
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There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.
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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagSuperman #1 published July 2013
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #1 published May 2012
as Portada alternativa Superman núm. 1 USA [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #1 [Segunda Edición] published July 2012
as Segunda Edición [Illustration on Cover, Front]cover
In Content Item: FlagSuperman - Action Comics #1 published July 2013
as Action Comics 1 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Superman Versus the City of Tomorrow

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; General Sam Lane; Lex Luthor; Mrs. Nyxly; Mr. Glenmorgan; Gus Grundig; Detective Blake; Zoft; Martinez; Casey
Synopsis: Early in his career, Superman scares a confession out of a corrupt developer and saves slum dwellers from a wrecking ball, as General Lane and Lex Luthor watch. Later, Luthor puts General Lane's daughter and her co-worker Jimmy Olsen in jeopardy when he creates an emergency on an elevated train that requires Superman's intervention to keep it from running straight into the Daily Planet building.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 29
Disclose Notes: Clark calls in his Glenmorgan story to a "Mr. Taylor," presumably George Taylor. Clark's landlady tells him a trio of friends came by, possibly the Legion of Super-Heroes founders.

The mystery woman from Flashpoint #5 appears on page 26.
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Batwing

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (interviewer)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): DC Comics the New 52
Character(s): Batwing [David Zavimbe]; Massacre
Synopsis: Interview with Judd Winick and Ben Oliver about Batwing (DC, 2011 series).
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Animal Man

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ? (interviewer)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): DC Comics the New 52
Character(s): Animal Man [Buddy Baker]
Synopsis: Interview with Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman about Animal Man (DC, 2011 series).
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sep 07 2011

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: non-fiction
Feature(s): DC Comics All Access
First Line: Welcome to your very FIRST DC ALL ACCESS
Synopsis: Jim Lee talks about the beginning discussions of The New 52.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Contains some sketches done during The New 52 discussion and planning.

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