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Action Comics 376

ACTION COMICS #376

Cover Date: May 1969
Cover Price: $0.12
Publication Date: 1969-03-27

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Curt Swan
Inks: Mike Esposito


Story: "The Only Way to Kill Superman!" (14 Pages)

Credits:

StoryOtto Binder
PencilsCurt Swan
InksJack Abel
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #120/2)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #120/2; next in World's Finest Comics #185)
Lois Lane (last in Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #120; next in Superman Vol. 1 #218)

Villain(s):

The Anti-Superman Gang
Doc "Eureka" Smith (first appearance; creates a matter-transmitter)
"Wheels" Talbot (first appearance; also in flashback; creates a hyper-sonic siren)
"Brains" Logan (first appearance; creates a shrink spray)
"Giant-Killer" Jones (first appearance; creates a kryptonite ring around Eath and a machine to turn lead into glass)
various other gang members

Location(s):

Fortress of Solitude
Metropolis
Daily Planet

Comment(s):

Story continues in the next issue.

Solicitation:

The Anti-Superman Gang tries several different scientific weapons against Superman, including a Kryptonite trap!


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Second Story: "The Hated Girl of Steel" (10 Pages)

Credits:

StoryLeo Dorfman
ArtKurt Schaffenberger
Assistant editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingMort Weisinger

Feature Character(s):

Supergirl (next in World's Finest Comics #189)

Villain(s):

Rancors (first appearance; an alien race "brain-draining" scientists from other worlds; Tiras, their Chieftain, named)

Other Character(s):

Dr. Marla Alexander (eyesight restored)
students at Stanhope College
Dr. Stanton (first appearance)
various renowned scientists from Earth
the Technicon Wizards of Korkuk (first appearance; members of an alien race)

Location(s):

Space Sector 2814
Earth
Stanhope College
somewhere in a jungle
Unidentified Space Sector(s)
the Red Claw Nebula
Korkuk (first appearance)
Rancor (first mentioned)

Comment(s):

Story continued from the previous issue.
The Supergirl feature ends its Action Comics run with this issue and starts under a new title with Adventure Comics #381.

Story Reprinted in:

Supergirl: The Silver Age Omnibus #2 (2018)


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