Dates
- Cover date
- November 2008
- On sale
- September 17, 2008
- In stores
- September 17, 2008
- Pages
- 36
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Editions and covers (3)
Copies of #869 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 07098930410969
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Story arc: Brainiac
This is part 4 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 4 Mind Over Matter · 22 pages
Brainiac's probes arrive in Metropolis, and Supergirl and Lois confront them. On the ship Superman and Brainiac continue their confrontation, and Superman gains the upper hand, putting Brainiac temporarily out of commission. He then goes to get the Kandor bottle, which starts communicating with him. Supergirl's parents are alive in there, and tell how they and Argo City survived the initial destruction of Krypton using Brainiac's technology. But Brainiac tracked them down, destroying Argo City, which forced Zor-El and Alura to send Kara away to Earth in the moments before destruction. But Brainiac has recovered; he severs the communications link and recaptures Superman. Supergirl is also captured and brought to the ship. A bottle starts forming around Metropolis, and the ship then fires a weapon into the Earth's sun.
Publisher’s description
Krypton's greatest adversary has set his sights on Superman and his homeworld as his endless quest for absolute knowledge continues. But the horrors within Brainiac's ship are nothing compared to the alien behind it. Superman's world is about to change!
Reprinted in
Superman: Brainiac (2009), Superman: Brainiac (2010), Superman: Last Son of Krypton (2013)