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Action Comics 407

ACTION COMICS #407

Cover Date: December 1971
Cover Price: $0.25
Publication Date: 1971-10-28

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Murphy Anderson
Colors: Gaspar Saladino


Story: "The Fiend in the Fortress of Solitude" (17 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
PencilsCurt Swan
InksMurphy Anderson
ColorsJohn Costanza
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMurray Boltinoff

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #117; next in the third story in this issue)

Villain(s):

Lex Luthor (last in Adventure Comics #397/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #248)
Michael "King" Andrews (first appearance; a criminal who discovers the location of the Fortress of Solitude; killed by Lex Luthor)

Other Character(s):

Mike Andrews (first appearance; the teenage son of Michael "King" Andrews)
a doctor

Location(s):

a hospital in Alaska
Fortress of Solitude
Metropolis
WGBS Building
Norfork Farm (a school for delinquent children, somewhere on the east coast)
an oil field in the Sahara Desert, Africa
the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida

Comment(s):

This story takes place over a few days in 1971, as per the tombstone of Michael "King" Andrews, 1920-1971.


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Second Story (reprint): "The Challenge of the Expanding World" [Part 2] (13 Pages)

Credits (new material only):

Reprint Comment(s):

Story reprinted from Brave and the Bold #53 (April-May 1964)

Comment(s):

Story continues in the previous issue.


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Third Story: "The Planet of Prey!" (7 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
PencilsCurt Swan
InksMurphy Anderson
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMurray Boltinoff

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #208)

Villain(s):

A small, living planet (first appearance; positions itself in the path of a space traveler where it can probe its victim's mind to transform itself into a lure, then absorb the victim when they touch the planet's surface)

Other Character(s):

a sentient species of alien birds (first appearance; lives in a symbiotic relationship with the living planet; surviving on the gases in its atmosphere)

Cameo Appearance(s):

Jor-El (image)
Lara Jor-El (image)
Jimmy Olsen (image)
Lois Lane (image)

Location(s):

Unidentified Space Sector
A small, living planet (first appearance; creates miniature duplicates of Metropolis from Earth as well as Kryptonopolis and the Gold Volcano from Krypton)


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