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ACTION COMICS #398
Cover Date: March 1971
Cover Price: $0.15
Publication Date: 1971-01-28
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Dick Giordano
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Credits:
| Story | Leo Dorfman |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Murphy Anderson |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Flash Vol. 1 #204; next in the second story in this issue)
Supporting Character(s):
- Morgan Edge (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #141; next in Superman Vol. 1 #233)
Villain(s):
- Cy Horkin (first appearance; a former Science professor, now rock festival producer; creates a "Lemming Effect" with music to control listeners' minds)
Other Character(s):
- citizens of Metropolis
- music festival attendees
- The Astronauts (first appearance; a rock group)
- The Bucketheads (first appearance; a music comedy group)
- The Ding-A-Lings (first mentioned; a rock group)
- Porky and the Hamlets (first mentioned; a rock group)
- Satan's Angels (first appearance; a rock group)
- The Soda Pops (first mentioned; a rock group)
Location(s):
- Fortress of Solitude
- Metropolis
- Galaxy Building
- Daily Planet (see Comments)
- Galaxy Building
Comment(s):
- The Daily Planet globe is removed from the Galaxy Communications Building. Clark Kent is made into a roving television reporter, and the "Rolling Newsroom" is introduced.
- A few weeks pass over the course of this story.
Story Reprinted in:
- Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies (Crown Publishers) (1971) [partial black and white]
- Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers) (1983)
Credits:
| Story | Leo Dorfman |
| Art | Murphy Anderson |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Mort Weisinger |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in Superman Vol. 1 #233)
Supporting Character(s):
- Supergirl (last in issue #397/2; next in Adventure Comics #401)
Villain(s):
- a trio of tomb raiders (first appearance of all; attempting to rob a pyramid in the Valley of the Pharaohs)
Other Character(s):
- Ituru (first appearance; a game keeper; also in flashback)
- Professor Bruno (first appearance; a botanist experimenting with synthetic seeds; in flashback to about a year earlier; presumably killed in an explosion)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Fortress of Solitude
- Egypt (Valley of the Pharaohs)
- an unidentified location one thousand miles from Egypt
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
- an unidentified remote world (used to relocate the strange plant life created from Professor Bruno's synthetic seeds)
Comment(s):
- Leo Dorfman used the pen name Geoff Brown as writer of this story.
- Superman and Supergirl bring the "plant versions" of themselves to display in the Fortress.