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Cover of Action Comics (1938) #422

Action Comics (1938) #422

DC 1938–2011 series Vol. 1 Cover date Mar 1973

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Action Comics #422 (1938) is issue #422 of DC's Action Comics (1938–2011), with a cover date of March 1973. Written by Cary Bates and Len Wein and drawn by Dick Giordano and Curt Swan.

Creators

Writers
Cary Bates, Len Wein
Pencillers
Dick Giordano, Curt Swan
Inkers
Murphy Anderson, Dick Giordano
Letterer
Ben Oda
Cover artist
Nick Cardy

Characters

The stories

“The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!”

Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.

“The Shadows-of-Yesterday Contract!”

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