Action Comics, #422

Published: March 1973

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Story Featuring Superman

"Gee, Superman... If only you were real..."

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

The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!

Story Featuring Superman

"A spectacular, eye-popping feat -- nothing more than a morning exercise for the greatest hero of them all..."

Storyline

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.

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The Shadows-of-Yesterday Contract!

Story Featuring The Human Target

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Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. The origin of Human Target continues in #423.

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Average circulation in the previous year is 253,000.

Letter Column Featuring Superman in Action

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