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Action Comics #729

DC · Series began 1938 · January 1997

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Dates

Cover date: January 1997
On sale: November 20, 1996
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #729 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct Sales

Barcode 76194120001972911
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Newsstand edition

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 07099230410301
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Creators

pencils: Tom Grummettinks: Denis Rodiercolors: Patrick Martin, Glenn Whitmore, Digital Chameleonletters: Todd Klein, Bill Oakleyscript: David Michelinie, Mike McAvennie

Stories

Generator X! · 22 pages
Powerless Superman crashes in the Antarctic on his way to the Fortress, and is found by a research team whom he helps battle an energy creature. Perry White learns his next cancer treatment could kill him. Superman makes it to the Fortress to try to restore his powers, but fails. Suddenly, he is swept up by Mr. Miracle and Big Barda and taken away in a Boom Tube.

Reprinted in

Superman Transformed! (1998)