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Action Comics Annual #12

DC · Series began 1987 · August 2009

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Dates

Cover date: August 2009
On sale: June 17, 2009
In stores: June 17, 2009
Pages: 52

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Editions and covers

Original edition

Barcode 76194120002601211
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Story arc: World Without Superman

This is part 11 of 15. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: Renato Guedes, Pere Pérez, Jesús Saiz, Phil Notoinks: Renato Guedes, Pere Pérez, Jesús Saiz, Phil Notoscript: Greg Rucka, Ian Sattlercolors: Maz!letters: Rob Leigh

Stories

The Origin of Nightwing and Flamebird! · 40 pages
In the past on Krypton, Ursa leads the Black Zero unit as Kandor is being taken by Brainiac. Ak-Var and his wife Tes are a part of the unit, and concerned because their daughter Thara is there. They locate her as one of the people that Brainiac is rounding up into the middle of the city, but the unit is taken down. A wounded Ursa and Thara watch from opposite sides as a bottle is formed around the middle of the city, killing Thara's parents. Kandor is now in Brainiac's ship, but ignored until Argo City is later discovered in space, and its people, including Zor-El and Alura, are added to Kandor. As they knew Thara and they miss their daughter, they form a family. Years later, after Chris Kent has sacrificed himself into the Phantom Zone at the end of the Phantom Zone invasion of Earth, he undergoes an abnormal growth spurt. He returns to Fort Rozz, and hides there with the help of Non. Back in Kandor, Thara has joined the military guild, but then gets invited to join the religious guild, and becomes a monk. In Fort Rozz, Chris sneaks into Zod's lab, and sees Superman and Lois on a monitor, and tries to contact them using some Brainiac technology. Instead, it forms a painful connection between Chris and Thara. Chris is revealed by his pain. Thara can no longer be a monk, she returns to Zor-El and Alura, and has an obsession to go to the Phantom Zone and get Chris. She finally armors up and goes there, but is almost thwarted by Non. But he takes pity on them, and, having stolen the projector, projects them back to Kandor, and destroys the projector.

Publisher’s description

Discover the origin of Nightwing and Flamebird! The new dynamic duo is busy rooting out General Zod's sleeper agents in the present, but how did they find out about the sleepers in the first place? What exactly is their history with Zod? How did they meet? What is their connection to the original Nightwing and Flamebird? Find out these answers and more in this all-new annual!

Reprinted in

Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird (2010), Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird (2011)