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Issue: Action Comics #585
Publication Date: February 1987
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Issues: #585 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Canadian
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/27/1986
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041002
Price: $1.00 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
14 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from DC Releases #33.
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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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"... And Graves Give Up Their Dead..."

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Genres: occult, superhero
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Packs of Fun for Everyone!

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And Graves Give Up Their Dead ...

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Genres: occult, superhero
Character(s): Arathaza [Barb Kowaleski] (first appearance)
First Line: Does the soil remember?
Synopsis: The Phantom Strangers enlists Superman to help defeat a creature created by the Serabite Stone.
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-2862
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Get Scramblin' Kids! I Need Your Help!

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First Line: Oh, it can't be! The evil (SESAMGORT) _________ has captured (P'NAC HURNCC) ____ ______!
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First, the Dark Knight Then, the Man of Steel Now DC Does It Again!

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First Line: George Pérez Greg Potter & Bruce Patterson introduce the new Woner Woman
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[untitled]

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First Line: Since the game of Lazer tag began way back in the year 1986, no one has ever equaled his record.
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Legends Crossovers

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Feature(s): Legends
First Line: Don't miss these exciting stories!
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 8 and 9. Includes covers of Cosmic Boy (1987 series) #3, Warlord (1976 series) #114 and Legends (1986 series) #4.
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Write Right Now!

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Thanks!

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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 16 and 17. DC heralds awards won by the company in the Kirby Awards, 1985 Eagle Awards and the CBG Fan Awards.
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Now... Complete in One Volume!

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First Line: The series that made headlines! Collected now in a high quality edition!
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Superman's Other Creators

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Character(s): Jerry Ordway (photograph)
First Line: It all began with Action Comics. Superman was the cover featured character on this new title, from what was then called Detective Comics, Inc., and it was a hit.
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 20 and 21. Dick Giordano talks about the "other" creators on the Superman books - Marv Wolfman and Jerry Ordway.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Look: Dick Giordano just came into my office -- he looks angry, but he's smiling.
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Job Number: L-2601
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Raymond Chuang, Mic McConnell, Brian Dreger, Steve O'Brien, Chris Blackmer and Keith R. Jones; responses from Andy Helfer.
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Loco Motion.

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First Line: 454 Cubic inches of supercharged Chevy rat engine. One incredibly mean machine.
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Torado Warning!

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First Line: Look out for the 4WD Tornado coming your way
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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