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ACTION COMICS #409
Cover Date: February 1972
Cover Price: $0.25
Publication Date: 1971-12-30
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Cover Credits:
Art: Nick Cardy
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Credits:
Story | Cary Bates |
Pencils | Curt Swan |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (suffers a psychotic break due to no sleep; tries to kill his Clark Kent identity; last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #119; next in World's Finest Comics #209)
Other Character(s):
- Shalox of Reba (first appearance; an alien student of deduction at the Alpha Galactic School of Deduction; also in flashback)
- an instructor at the Alpha Galactic School of Deduction (first appearance; in flashback)
- citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Liberty City (first appearance; a building project of Superman's, somewhere in the American southwest)
- Metropolis
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector(s)
- Alpha Galactic School of Deduction (first appearance; in flashback)
- Reba (first mentioned)
Credits (new material only):
Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
Reprint Comment(s):
- Story reprinted from Teen Titans #4 (July-August 1966) [page 1-13]
Credits:
Story | Cary Bates |
Pencils | George Tuska |
Inks | Murphy Anderson |
Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (creates the door to the Fortress of Solitude; last in the flashback in Superman Vol. 1 #176/2; next in the flashback in issue #395)
Other Character(s):
- Captain Horace Mitchell (first appearance; a police officer)
- citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Metropolis
- Fortress of Solitude
- somewhere in Africa