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Issue: Superman #12
Publication Date: December 1987
 
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 09/08/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893067512
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
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Editor(s): Andrew Helfer; Michael Carlin
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #43.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Lost Love

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Chocolate Fun for Everyone!

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Inside front cover.
Lost Love

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Hans Schmidt (villain, first appearance, flashback)
There he is...
Clark tells the story of his first true love... Lori Lemaris.
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Story is "Dedicated to the memory of Wayne Boring, the first Lori artist." Boring died about six months before this issue's publication.
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Exzits: Pimpes so embarrasing you want to leave the party.
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Between story pages 9 and 10.
The United States Army vs. the United States of Rock

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Find out which one wins in...
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Between story pages 9 and 10.
Saturday Morning This Fall on NBC!

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It's lunchtime in Burbank and the stars of NBC's Saturday morning shows have gathered in the world-famous commissary to discuss the new fall lineup!
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Write Right Now!

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Between story pages 15 and 16. Above the Millennium promo. Eleven ads for various products.
Checklist

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Millennium
Millennium, read it first every week. After that, read all the crossover titles!
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Below the Write Right Now ads.
Warning!

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Wasteland
Read these stories and tremor from mortal terror of the most dangerous kind...
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Dear Mike: When John Byrne announced just prior to the Man of Steel mini-series that "Superboy never existed" it became inevitable that the story now running through Legion, Superman and Action be told.
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Letters from: Norman Ore, Billy Burns, Kevin Hawn, Fred L. deBoom, Mick Dillingham, Gregory Smith, Rick Garcia, Chris Mygrant, Mike D'Agonstino, Charles D. Brown, Kenneth S. Krempasky and Chris Khalaf; responses from Mike Carlin.
One of These People Has Waited 1000 Years to Betray Us!

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Get the whole story in:
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On the bottom of the last page of the letters page.
2 Free Months of DC Comics!

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DC
Subscribe now and you'll get 14 months of your favorite DC title() for the price of 12 months.
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The Chip Ahoy! Betcha Bite a Chip Fold-in

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Once you fold 'A' to 'B,' the answer will appear
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Inside back cover.
Old Prof. Wombas's Creation Has Fallen into the Wrong Hands

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And that's not good news. Because the good professor's remarkable experiment, the recombination of living bodies with the power of machines, has been stolen by the evil Stugnoids.
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Back cover.

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