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Issue: Action Comics #687
Publication Date: June 1993
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Issues: #687 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Standard Edition - Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 04/29/1993
Volume: none
Pages: 40
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.50 CAD
£0.60 GBP
$1.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: 1993 Triangle #12.
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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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reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagSuperman #3 published May 2016
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Original Artwork
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Reign of the Supermen! Born Again!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Last Son of Krypton; Superman
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Born Again [Reign of the Supermen, Part 1]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Last Son of Krypton
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (corpse, cameo); Last Son of Krypton [as Superman] (first appearance); Lois Lane; Supergirl [Matrix]; Bibbo Bibbowski; Marty; Steve; Lex Luthor (villain); Sydney Happersen (villain); Daryl Wilbur (villain)
Synopsis: An energy form from the Fortress of Solitude bonds with Superman's corpse, resulting in the creation of the Last Son of Krypton.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman: The Return of Superman #[nn] [unnamed variant] published December 1993
as Born Again [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: First appearance of the Last Son of Krypton, who would later be renamed Eradicator. Story continues in SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL (DC, 1991 series) #22.
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Last Son of Krypton

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): Last Son of Krypton
Character(s): Last Son of Krypton [as Superman]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Poster in middle of comic book.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Letters from readers - Steve Klein, Carl Pietrantonio, James Evans, Brad Parnell, Uncle Elvis, Dead Don Cromie, Jim Jackson and Joe Kucharski III - and responses from Jennifer Frank.

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