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Issue: Action Comics #393
Publication Date: October 1970
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Issues: #393 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/27/1970
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Superman Meets Super-Houdini!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Dan Holahan; "Hair-breadth" Holahan
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #2/1971 published February 1971
as Supermann møter Super-Houdini! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] published January 1983
as Superman in the 1970s [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B 732
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Superman Meets Super-Houdini!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; "Hair-breadth" Holahan; Dan Holahan; Stoney Croy; Mick Leroy; Hack Wheeler; Crip Brand
Synopsis: Daredevil escape artist "Hair-breadth" Holahan must confront his secret criminal past when gangsters blackmail him into helping them.
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In Content Item: FlagSupermann #2/1971 published February 1971
as Supermann møter Super-Houdini! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #12/1971 published June 1971
as Der "tolle Rolf" : Der Super-Befreiungskünstler [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Extra #1 published January 1980
as Der Super-Befreiungskünstler [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 14
Job Number: B-718
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Superman Scrapbook

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superman
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-773
Disclose Notes: Various "action shots" of Superman from the early years.
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The Day Superboy Became Superman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Marla Harvey
Synopsis: Superboy encounters student activist Marla Harvey, who challenges his beliefs and assumptions. When she dies in an accident while helping others, he resolves to dedicate himself to her principles.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Job Number: B-727
Disclose Notes: Superboy in College story.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-760
Disclose Notes: Letters submitted by Gerard Triano, Richard H. Morrissey, Irene Vartanoff, Douglas Isenstein, Paul Hulka, and Jay Zilber.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): It's the Scene
First Line: I'm going to ask Dad for an increase in my allowance.
Synopsis: A teenager asks his father for a raise in his allowance.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: B-582

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