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Issue: The Superman Chronicles #8
Publication Date: June 2010
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Issues: #8 of 10 Issues (12 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDC
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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics
On Sale Date: 04/14/2010
Volume: 8
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9781401226473
UPC/EAN: 978140122647351499
Price: $18.99 CAD
$14.99 USD
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Content Items: 19 (12 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: Reprints the Superman stories from Action Comics #44-47 and Superman #14-15.

The Superman story from World's Finest Comics #5 is missing from this volume. It should have been included after Action Comics #46. Volume 7 includes World's Finest Comics #4, and Volume 9 includes World's Finest Comics #6, but #5 does not appear in any volume in this series.
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: cardstock cover
Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected editions
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Penciller(s): various
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Genres: superhero
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Disclose Notes: Main image based on the Superman figure from the cover of Superman (DC, 1939 series) #14.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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The Caveman Criminal

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Dr. Kemper (death); The Dawn Man (introduction, death); Professor Steffens (villain); Duke Brady (villain); Pugsy (villain, death)
Synopsis: A scientist revives a prehestoric man he had discovered in Alaska and attempts to frame him for murder.
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Pages: 13
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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Concerts of Doom

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Sgt. Casey; Rudolph Krazinski (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: When people who attend a concert at Plymouth Hall are robbed, seemingly without their knowledge, Clark and Lois attend the next evening's concert to see if lightning strikes twice. It does, and Clark discovers that mass hypnotism is involved, which makes it all the worse a few nights later when the concert is broadcast over the airwaves, making people fall asleep while listening to the program, and allowing criminals to rob them blind.
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The Invention Thief

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Chet Farnsworth (intro); Jim Baldwin (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: When young Chet Farnsworth's invention, a fire extinguishing powder, is successfully used to put out a tenement fire, the young man hastily signs a contract with an unscrupulous man, not realizing that he has just signed the rights and any profits away to him.
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The Undersea City

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Perry White; Chet Furnall; Princess Kuella (introduction, death); King Saffro (introduction, death); the Mer-people (deaths); Akthar (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Perry sends Lois and Clark out to cover a fisherman's story that he has spotted a living mermaid. Lois dismisses it after the interview, but Clark decides to investigate further and discovers the man is telling the truth. The mermaid tells the Man of Tomorrow that her father's evil adviser is planning to invade the land world and must be stopped.
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The Lightning Master

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Lightning Master (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Superman responds to a horrible lightning storm that is wreaking havoc all over Metropolis.
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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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Superman's Ark

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Charles; Mr. Morgan; Count von Henzel (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: When Clark and Lois visit the Metropolis Zoo on their day off, they discover the place is virtually deserted. So Superman takes a hand, capturing a variety of new animals, but encountering a foe that nearly destroys the Man of Tomorrow.
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Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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The Devil's Playground

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jim Gantry; The Domino [Jeff Farnham] (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: The Domino terrorizes the Gantry Amusement Park, trying to get gambling stands into the place, but Superman decides otherwise.
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Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
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The Cop Who Was Ruined

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Sgt. Bob Branigan; Bill Talley (villain, introduction)
Synopsis: Lois and Clark stand by Sgt. Branigan and seek to assist him after he was blinded during a tussle with mobsters as well as being dismissed from the Police force for accidentally killing a woman while supposedly misusing his powers as a Police officer. To make things worse, Branigan is approached by the very mobsters he fought earlier and they are demanding protection money from him for his new business.
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Saboteurs from Napkan

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Secretary of the Navy Hank Fox; Hokopoko (villain, introduction, death); Utsum (villain, introduction, death); the Black Circle (villains, introduction, deaths)
Synopsis: Superman discovers that Battleship Y-92 had been sabotaged by agents of the war-like nation of Napkan upon launching. He later discovers that pro-Napkan parties have been established in South America, and the enemy wishes to have more formed in Central American nations that will turn anti-American, thus allowing Napkan to openly invade the United States without opposition.
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Pages: 12
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Superman in Oxnalia

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Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; King Boris; Prince Micheal; Razkal (villain, introduction, death); Lord Murgot (villain, introduction, death)
Synopsis: Superman heads to Europe to assist the democratic nation of Numark against the war-like attacks being made on it by Oxnalia, saving Numark's young Prince as well as bringing about peace between the two nations.
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The Evolution King

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Sgt. Casey; Phil Carter; Tim (a newspaper boy); The Evolution King (villain, introduction, death); Tony Rico (villain); Joe Glower (villain)
Synopsis: Superman must battle the Evolution King, a man who has developed a way to advance or revert the ages of prominent athletes, forcing them to pay him blackmail, else he keeps them in an old and decrepit condition.
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Powerstone

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Character(s): Superman; Lex Luthor
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Powerstone

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Luthor; Perry White; Lois Lane; Brett Calhoun
Synopsis: Luthor gains super strength in order to battle Superman in hand-to-hand combat after Brett Calhoun announces that he is going to give away half of his fortune ($3 million) to any man who can prove he is the richest man in Metropolis.
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