Dates
- Cover date
- Early October 2007
- On sale
- August 1, 2007
- In stores
- August 1, 2007
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #853 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.
- Newsstand edition
Newsstand
A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.
Barcode 07098930410911
This edition’s page
Story arc: Countdown to Final Crisis
This is part 2 of 16. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Action Comics #852
- Action Comics #853
- Action Comics #854
- Countdown to Adventure #1
- 52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen #1
- Countdown to Adventure #2
- Death of the New Gods #1
- Countdown to Adventure #3
- Salvation Run #1
- Countdown: Arena #2
- Countdown: Arena #3
- Countdown to Adventure #5
- Countdown to Mystery #5
- Countdown Presents: Lord Havok & the Extremists #5
- Countdown to Adventure #7
- Salvation Run #7
Creators
Stories
- 3-2-1 Action! Part 2 The Signal · 22 pages
The lab monkey from the tests that created the Kryptonite Man is on the loose, and finds the Kryptonite Man, helping him escape. Jimmy has become a hero, Mr. Action, and debates what to do next. Kryptonite Man takes over Rydertech's labs. Jimmy finds out about it, and as Mr. Action attacks, but is defeated. Superman tracks them down, but is overcome also. As he is tied up in the back, Jimmy doesn't know that Superman's there, and constructs another hypersonic signal device. The signal is answered by Krypto.
Publisher’s description
3-2-1 Action continues with the Kryptonite Man on the loose, Mr. Action on the prowl and Superman on the ropes! Plus, a certain long-lost superdog returns...but what does fate hold for Jimmy Olsen?
Reprinted in
Superman: 3-2-1 Action! (2008)