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Action Comics #847

DC · Series began 1938 · April 2007

Dates

Cover date
April 2007
On sale
March 28, 2007
Pages
36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #847 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

  • Direct Sales

    Barcode 76194120001984711

    Source ↗
  • Newsstand edition

    Newsstand

    A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

    Barcode 07098930410904

    This edition’s page

Creators

pencils: Renato Guedesinks: Renato Guedescolors: Renato Guedesscript: Dwayne McDuffie, Bob Wayneletters: Travis Lanham

Stories

  • Intermezzo · 22 pages

    Jonathan Kent is up in the middle of the night, trying to make coffee, even though he's not supposed to be having caffeine. Martha catches him, and together they worry about Clark, who has gone missing in the Last Son storyline. Jonathan remembers back to a time that he and Clark snuck away, and went to the fortress. Superman made a spaceship, and they took off to do some sightseeing. They received a distress signal; a star system was being threatened by a Sun-Eater. Superman found an alien fighter, trying to take a bomb to the Sun-Eater, but it got disabled. He took the bomb, and despite being bombarded with red sun radiation, carried it into the Sun-Eater, and detonated it. Exhausted, Superman couldn't out fly the explosion, but Jonathan caught up to him in the spaceship, and they escaped. They then returned to Earth, caught some fish as a cover story, and returned home. Jonathan tells Martha that they must never underestimate their son, no matter what the odds, and they go back to bed.

Reprinted in

Superman: The Third Kryptonian (2008), DC Comics Presents: Blink (2011), DC Universe by Dwayne McDuffie (2023)

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