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Issue: Superman #18
Publication Date: June 1988
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Issues: #18 of 231 Issues (526 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/16/1988
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $1.00 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 17 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Shipping date of February 23, 1988 per Direct Currents #1 (January 1988). Corrected shipping date of February 16, 1988, per Direct Currents #2 (February 1988), confirmed from copyright registration.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Return to Krypton

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: superhero
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In Issue: FlagStålmannen #3/1989 published ?
In Content Item: FlagSupermán #56 published November 1988
as Regreso a Krypton [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #3/1989 published January 1989
as Reisen til Krypton [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Pages: 1
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Betcha Bite a Chip with Chips Ahoy!

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First Line: There are so many chocolate chips in a Chips Ahoy! cookie it's impossible to bit a cookie without biting a chip.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover.
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Return to Krypton

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
First Line: Around me the swirling mists of interstellar space sparkle with the light of a billion, billion stars.
Synopsis: Hawkman and Hawkwoman take Superman to Krypton.
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In Content Item: FlagSupermán #56 published November 1988
as Regreso a Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #3/1989 published January 1989
as Reisen til Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told #1 published October 2004
as Return to Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
Job Number: G-3665
Disclose Notes: Story continues from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #600.
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Chocolate Fun for Everyone

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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 4 and 5.
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[untitled]

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First Line: After Millennium -- only one Manhunter survives -- to stalk the world's most dangerous game.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 4 and 5.
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[untitled]

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First Line: The world's greatest rock 'n roll catalog! The best quality, largest selection anywhere!
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 8 and 9.
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Remodeling in Progress

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Feature(s): Action Comics
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Write Right Now!

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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 16 and 17. Above the Aquaman promo. Fifteen ads for various products.
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The Missing Peace

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First Line: Aquaman risks his soul to regain his life!
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 16 and 17. Below the Write Right Now! ads.
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Who Killed Them?

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First Line: The Wanderers return to solve the final mystery...
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 16 and 17.
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[untitled]

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First Line: Beyond evil there is insanity -- beynd insanity there is -- the Joker
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 20 and 21.
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June 1988

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Writer(s): ? [as Johnny DC]
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First Line: Jim Starlin and Berni Wrightson had great fun working on the popular mini-series The Weird so they immediately decided to...
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Pages: 0.67
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 20 and 21. To the left of the DC Check List. Miscellaneous DC news items, spotlighting Batman: The Cult and The Killing Joke.
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[untitled]

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Pages: 0.33
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 20 and 21. On the right of the DCI with Johnny DC column.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: "Last Stand" in issue #14 of Superman was wonderul and fun to read.
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Pages: 1.75
Job Number: L-3142
Disclose Notes: Letters from: Hurricane Heeran, David Metz, Kip Talbott, Steve Getman, Dale Coe, Charles D. Brown and Vince Forrington; responses from Renee Witterstaetter.
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A Different Kind of Nightmare...

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First Line: Kyle Baker draws the Shadow
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Pages: 0.25
Disclose Notes: On the bottom right of the second page of the text story.
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Which Type Are You?

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Feature(s): Action Comics Weekly
First Line: Take the Action Comics Weekly subscription quiz today
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover.
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Crystal Clear Catastrophe

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First Line: The unfathomable Crystal Shard. A forgotten fragment from some other tme and place...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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