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Action Comics, #576 Direct

Published: February 1986

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Action Comics #576

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Issue Contents:
Earth's Sister Planet!
1 page superhero
Characters
  • Superman
Credits
Story Notes

Cover pencils and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Earth's Sister Planet!
Story 1 16 pages superhero
Storyline

Superman battles the leader of a planet that used to be in our solar system where dinosaurs are sentient and dominant. The leader wants to obliterate humanity. His son, however, plots to save the humans, with Superman's help.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
Credits
Story Notes

Script, pencils, and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The "Monumental" Menace of Metropolis!
Story 2 8 pages superhero
Storyline

Superman switches bodies with a young hero from another world to defeat alien invaders.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Vaalor
Credits
Story Notes

Script (for Mark Waid), pencils, and inks credits confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. However, in comments on an article on the ComicBookResources website on early works by Mark Waid (published on 2011-03-12), Mark comments that "[This story] was bought and then rewritten from top to bottom by assistant editor E. Nelson Bridwell. And when I say 'from top to bottom,' I mean, no kidding, every single line of dialogue and half the panel descriptions were blue-penciled (Nelson sent me a copy of the edited script to learn from, and I still have it–he actually worked harder on it than I did, I think!). All of the balloons and captions–every one–was rewritten to tell us what we could already see was happening in the art. An entire subplot about the cabbie was edited in. Very little survived." He goes on to say he's fine with that; it was the style for this book at that time.

Story 3 1 page
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