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Action Comics #242
Facsimile Edition (Foil Cardstock Cover)
May 2026 · 6.99 USD · 36 pages
On sale 2026-03-11
Rated Ages 13+
UPC 76194139476300131
Synopsis
While on an experimental rocket, Clark & Lois encounter the alien Brainiac, who plans to shrink & bottle great cities of Earth & use them to repopulate his planet. Superman gets inside Brainiac’s ship when the villain takes Metropolis & there finds a bottle with a Kryptonian city (which in later issues will be named Kandor). He enters the bottle and with the help of a scientist restores the cities of Earth while Brainiac lies in suspended animation for his trip home. Because there is not enough power to restore the Kryptonian city, Superman places it in his Fortress, as Brainiac rockets away.
Credits
- Script
- Jack Schiff, Otto Binder, Henry Boltinoff, Martin Naydel
- Pencils
- Curt Swan, Henry Boltinoff, Al Plastino, Jim Mooney, Bob Brown, Howard Sherman, Martin Naydel
- Inks
- Stan Kaye, Henry Boltinoff, Al Plastino, Jim Mooney, Bob Brown, Howard Sherman, Martin Naydel
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff
- Editor
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Assistant editor
- Mort Weisinger, George Kashdan
- Managing editor
- Jack Schiff
Characters
Notes
Foil cardstock cover. Facsimile reproduction of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #242 July 1958 issue (first appearance of Brainiac and the bottle city of Kandor), including the cover, stories, letter pages and advertisements from the original issue. The interior paper stock is a lightweight newsprint similar to the original issue. Modern DC logo, barcode, and age rating have been added to the back cover.
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