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Action Comics 409

ACTION COMICS #409

Cover Date: February 1972
Cover Price: $0.25
Publication Date: 1971-12-30

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Cover Credits:
Art: Nick Cardy


Story: "Who is Clark Kent's Killer and Why is He Doing Those Terrible Things to Me?" (19 Pages)

Credits:

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

Feature Character(s):

Superman (suffers a psychotic break due to no sleep; tries to kill his Clark Kent identity; last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #119; next in World's Finest Comics #209)

Other Character(s):

Shalox of Reba (first appearance; an alien student of deduction at the Alpha Galactic School of Deduction; also in flashback)
an instructor at the Alpha Galactic School of Deduction (first appearance; in flashback)
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Liberty City (first appearance; a building project of Superman's, somewhere in the American southwest)
Metropolis
WGBS Building
344 Clinton St.
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
Alpha Galactic School of Deduction (first appearance; in flashback)
Reba (first mentioned)


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Second Story (reprint): "The Secret Olympic Heroes" (7 Pages)

Credits (new material only):

Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMurray Boltinoff

Feature Character(s):

Teen Titans

Reprint Comment(s):

Story reprinted from Teen Titans #4 (July-August 1966) [page 1-13]


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Third Story: "The Baffling Block of Metropolis" (6 Pages)
An Untold Tale of Superman

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
PencilsGeorge Tuska
InksMurphy Anderson
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMurray Boltinoff

Feature Character(s):

Superman (creates the door to the Fortress of Solitude; last in the flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #176/2; next in the flashback in issue #395)

Other Character(s):

Captain Horace Mitchell (first appearance; a police officer)
citizens of Metropolis

Location(s):

Metropolis
Fortress of Solitude
somewhere in Africa


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