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ACTION COMICS #419
Cover Date: December 1972
Cover Price: $.20
Publication Date: 1972-10-26
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Cover Credits:
Photograph: Jack Adler
Pencils: Neal Adams
Inks: Murphy Anderson
Colors: Jack Adler
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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 (last in Justice League of America #103; next in Superman Vol. 1 #260)
Supporting Character(s):
- Lois Lane (last in Superman's Girl Friend Lois Lane #128; next in issue #420)
Villain(s):
- Moe Mallow (first appearance; a two-bit down-on-his-luck crook who finds a pair of glowing shoes and a gun that fires a strange energy)
Other Character(s):
- Vincent Appleton (first appearance; an elderly amateur astronomer residing in the apartment above Clark Kent)
- citizens of Metropolis
Location(s):
- Earth
- Metropolis (also in orbit above the city)
Credits:
| Story | Len Wein |
| Pencils | Carmine Infantino, Dick Giordano |
| Inks | Dick Giordano |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Murray Boltinoff |
Feature Character(s):
- Human Target (Christopher Chance; first appearance; last in flashback to earliest chronological appearance in issue #422/2; next in issue #420/2)
Supporting Character(s):
- Luigi (first appearance; a restaurant owner and Chance's landlord; next in issue #420/2)
Villain(s):
- a hired killer (first appearance; dies)
Other Character(s):
- T. C. Newman (first appearance; president of the Horizon Chemical Corporation)
- Harry Cheever (first appearance; a rubber duck salesman)
- Mr. Smithers (first appearance; employee of Mr. Newman's; hires Christopher Chance to stop a killer he accidentaly hired)
Location(s):
- Boston, MA (Beacon Hill)
- San Francisco, CA
Story Reprinted in:
- Best of DC #30 (November 1982)
- Action Comics 80 Years of Superman: The Deluxe Edition (2018)
- The DC Universe by Len Wein (2019)