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Issue: Action Comics Annual #2
Publication Date: June 1989
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Issues: #2 of 13 Issues (25 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Sales
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/13/1989
Volume: none
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.25 CAD
£0.70 GBP
$1.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 21 (2 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Genres: superhero
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #4 published January 1990
as Gestrandet auf Kriegswelt [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSuper-Homem #84 published June 1991
as Transformado num gladiador estelar! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Exile #[nn] published August 1998
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Eighties #[nn] published June 2006
as Post-Crisis [Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude #[nn] published June 2012
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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First Line: Video games just got easier to order!
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Memories of Krypton's Past

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Sen-M the Elder (flashback); the League of Life (flashback); Syra (flashback; dies); Tyr-N (flashback); Kaargl (villain, introduction); Eradicator (introduction)
First Line: The prison planet lies in the vast shadow of Warworld, the seat of power in this galaxy.
Synopsis: Superman fights and defeats Mongul's gladiators. The Cleric has an artifact from Krypton that he has been holding until the right person comes along.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #4 published January 1990
as Erinnerung an Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #3/1991 published April 1991
as Minner fra Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]22 pages
In Content Item: FlagSuper-Homem #84 published June 1991
as Lembranças de Krypton [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: Exile #[nn] published August 1998
as Memories of Krypton's Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Secrets of the Fortress of Solitude #[nn] published June 2012
as Memories of Krypton's Past [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 48
Disclose Notes: Story continued from Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #454 and story continues in Superman (DC, 1987 series) #32.
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Get All Fired Up... for the Adventure of a Lifetime

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First Line: Role playing action-adventure password features 2 speed levels
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Comic Book Conventions!

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First Line: May schedule
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 36 and 37. Above the Badge A Minit ad.
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Got a Minit? Make a Button!

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First Line: Only $29.95 gets you started
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Take No Prisoners.

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First Line: Operation Wolf for your Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Headquarters for Batman

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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 40 and 41. Above the DC Annuals promo.
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DC Annuals 1989

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First Line: Featuring secrets of the DC Universe
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 40 and 41. Below the "Headquarters for Batman" ad. Includes images of the covers of Batman Annual (DC, 1961 Series) #13 and Flash Annual (DC, 1987 Series) #3.
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Matrix

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Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Who's Who
First Line: For his own reasons, the sinister entity known as the Time Trapper created a pocket universe, including a duplicate of Earth.
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In Content Item: FlagSupermann #1/1991 published January 1991
as Matrix [Character Profile on Interior Page(s)]
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Cat Grant

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Feature(s): Who's Who
First Line: Catherine Grant first made her mark as a newspaper reporter on the West Coast, writing a gossip and interview column...
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In Content Item: FlagSupermann #1/1991 published January 1991
as Cat Grant [Character Profile on Interior Page(s)]
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First Line: The Man of Steel welcomes George Pérez and Brett Breeding to the Superman team!
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Death Times Two!

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First Line: The Question and Green Arrow... the final face-off!
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Write Right Now!

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What's Hot This Summer? Just Us Leaguers!

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First Line: It's going to be a hot JLI summer!
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How I Spent My Super-Summer Vacation

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First Line: There I was, Cleveland, Ohio, the Superman Expo, June 16th, 1988. You know, somehow it all seemed so appropriate.
Synopsis: George Perez discusses how he became the writer of Action Comics.
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Don't Miss Out on Action Comics!

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First Line: Deduct $1.00 from each Action, Adventures of Superman, and Superman subscription you order.
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"A Killer of a Bio..." -- Lois Lane, Daily Planet

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First Line: "Powerful -- both the man and his story..." -- Carole Bennet, Boston Globe Leader
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Disclose Notes: Between story pages 6 and 7. Includes image of the cover of Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography (DC, 1989 Series) and three panels of interior art.
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Bubble Bobble Is Dyno-Might!

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First Line: (For your Nintendo Entertainment System.)
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Your Toughest Opponent Shouldn't Be the Rulebook.

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First Line: We think it's time that the rulebooks were on your side.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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