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ACTION COMICS #407
Cover Date: December 1971
Cover Price: $0.25
Publication Date: 1971-10-28
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Murphy Anderson
Colors: Gaspar Saladino
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Credits:
| Story | Cary Bates |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Murphy Anderson |
| Colors | John Costanza |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #117; next in the third story in this issue)
Villain(s):
- Lex Luthor (last in Adventure Comics #397/2; next in Superman Vol. 1 #248)
- Michael "King" Andrews (first appearance; a criminal who discovers the location of the Fortress of Solitude; killed by Lex Luthor)
Other Character(s):
- Mike Andrews (first appearance; the teenage son of Michael "King" Andrews)
- a doctor
Location(s):
- a hospital in Alaska
- Fortress of Solitude
- Metropolis
- Norfork Farm (a school for delinquent children, somewhere on the east coast)
- an oil field in the Sahara Desert, Africa
- the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Florida
Comment(s):
- This story takes place over a few days in 1971, as per the tombstone of Michael "King" Andrews, 1920-1971.
Credits (new material only):
Reprint Comment(s):
- Story reprinted from Brave and the Bold #53 (April-May 1964)
Comment(s):
- Story continues in the previous issue.
Credits:
| Story | Leo Dorfman |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Murphy Anderson |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in the first story in this issue; next in World's Finest Comics #208)
Villain(s):
- A small, living planet (first appearance; positions itself in the path of a space traveler where it can probe its victim's mind to transform itself into a lure, then absorb the victim when they touch the planet's surface)
Other Character(s):
- a sentient species of alien birds (first appearance; lives in a symbiotic relationship with the living planet; surviving on the gases in its atmosphere)
Cameo Appearance(s):
- Jor-El (image)
- Lara Jor-El (image)
- Jimmy Olsen (image)
- Lois Lane (image)
Location(s):
- Unidentified Space Sector
- A small, living planet (first appearance; creates miniature duplicates of Metropolis from Earth as well as Kryptonopolis and the Gold Volcano from Krypton)