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Action Comics #422

DC · Series began 1938 · March 1973

Dates

Cover date
March 1973
On sale
January 30, 1973
Pages
36

Editions and covers

Creators

pencils: Nick Cardy, Curt Swan, Dick Giordanoinks: Nick Cardy, Murphy Anderson, Dick Giordanoscript: Cary Bates, E. Nelson Bridwell, Len Weinletters: Ben Oda

Stories

  • The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis! · 14.67 pages

    Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.

  • The Shadows-of-Yesterday Contract! · 8 pages

Characters

Clark KentSupermanChristopher ChanceThe Human Target

Reprinted in

Superman Supacomic (1959), The Best of DC (1979), The DC Universe by Len Wein (2019)

Run and key data from the Grand Comics Database (comics.org), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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