Dates
- Cover date
- October 2008
- On sale
- August 13, 2008
- In stores
- August 13, 2008
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (2)
Copies of #868 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 07098930410968
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Story arc: Brainiac
This is part 3 of 5. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.
- Action Comics #866
- Action Comics #867
- Action Comics #868
- Action Comics #869
- Action Comics #870
Also part of: New Krypton
Creators
Stories
- Brainiac Part 3 Greetings · 22 pages
Supergirl visits the Daily Planet, looking for Clark, but making an enemy of Cat Grant in the meantime. Superman is still unconscious on Brainiac's ship, being probed. After awakening and destroying the Brainiac probes, he explores the ship, fighting Kono, finding various people in suspended animation, finding a room of bottled cities, and hearing Kryptonese. He tracks the latter to a particular city in a bottle: Kandor. The real Brainiac awakens, and they confront each other. Brainiac has traced Superman back to Earth, which he now plans to gather knowledge from.
Publisher’s description
Against everyone's advice, Superman has journeyed to the deepest reaches of space to initiate contact with an alien being he thought he knew: Brainiac. But after learning about the truth behind Brainiac's existence and his plans for Earth, Superman may regret his decision.
Reprinted in
Superman: Brainiac (2009), Superman: Brainiac (2010), Superman: Last Son of Krypton (2013), Superman Giant (2019)