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Issue: Action Comics #597
Publication Date: February 1988
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Issues: #597 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/27/1987
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041002
Price: $0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
15 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #128.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Genres: superhero
First Line: I guarantee that this scene does not appear in this issue!
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Chocolate Fun for Everyone!

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Visitor

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Peg
First Line: So this is Kent's home town...
Synopsis: With Superman in a follow-up to Millennium, Lois Lane meets Lana Lang in Smallville. Ma and Pa Kent tell Lois that they raised both Clark and Superman.
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Job Number: G-3531
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Body Builder

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First Line: Mabye it's a truck body. Maybe a racing car body. But whatever model you're building, you want it to look the best.
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Brings out the Hero in You!

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First Line: Now you can bring home your favorite smash arcade hits for play on the Nintendo Entertainment System...
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Don't Just Stand There. Fire Back!

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First Line: Lord Dread is threatening the future of the human race! Captain Power battles him every week on TV and he needs your help.
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First Line: For a price, they'll solve anything... if they like you.
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Blast-off!

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First Line: With Zanac and Lunar Pool
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Great New Gifts for the Holiday Season

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Feature(s): Give them to yourself too!!
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 16 and 17. Promo the Superman and Batman collections: The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1987 series) hardcover, The Man of Steel (DC, 1987 series) trade paperback and Batman: Son of the Demon (DC, 1987 series) trade paperback.
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Write Right Now!

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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 20 and 21. Above the Spiral Zone promo. Fifteen ads for various products.
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First Line: In the Spiral Zone, no one thinks about leaving. No one thinks, period.
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 20 and 21. Below the Write Right Now! ads.
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Space... the Final Frontier

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First Line: It's a new Enterprise... with a new crew... but the thirst for adventure remains!
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First Line: Dear John & Michael: Action #592 was fantastic.
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Job Number: L-3028
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Erich Mees, Jeff Mitchell, Dana E. Johnson, Ben Milton, Occie J. Gillis, Jr., Rob Rausch, David Metz, Jacob Gilbert and Don Lambert, Jr.; responses from Mike Carlin.
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First Line: What happens every time you bite into a Striped Chips Ahoy!?
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One Giant Step for Dragonkind

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First Line: The future is here for millionsof AD&D game players.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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