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ACTION COMICS #422
Cover Date: March 1973
Cover Price: $.20
Publication Date: 1973-01-30
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Cover Credits:
Art: Nick Cardy
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Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Murphy Anderson |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #157/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #263)
Villain(s):
- Mac Nelson (first appearance; a soon to be out of work actor, starring on the sci-fi television show, "The Runaway; attempts to kill his co-star Dan Marz; dies)
- giant white blood cells (first appearance)
Other Character(s):
- Woodrow Prescott (first appearance; a boy who has lived his entire life in quarantine; believes the characters he sees on television are real; Woodrow has a unique disease, his white blood cells increase to monstrous size)
- Herbert Prescott (first appearance; Woodrow's father)
- Kerry Prescott (first appearance; Woodrow's mother)
- Dan Marz (first appearance; an actor, starring on the sci-fi television show, "The Runaway")
- Ted (first appearance; a member of the WGBS camera crew)
- citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
Story Reprinted in:
- Best of DC #25 (June 1982)
Credits:
| Story | Len Wein |
| Art | Dick Giordano |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Human Target (last in issue #420/2; also in flashback to earliest chronological appearance, prior to issue #419/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Phillip Chance (in flashback; dies)
Villain(s):
- Sharkey (first appearance; in flashback)
- Dancer (first appearance; an underworld hitman; also in flashback)
Other Character(s):
- Luigi (in between issues #420/2 and #425/3)
- Hyram Walsh (first appearance; hires Christopher Chance)
Location(s):
- Boston, MA
Comment(s):
- Story continues in the next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- The DC Universe by Len Wein (2019)