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Action Comics #422 (1973) · The Collector

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Action Comics (1938)
#422

DC Comics#422

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Action Comics #422

The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis! / The Shadows-of-Yesterday Contract!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: March 1973
On sale: Jan 30, 1973
Cover price: $0.20
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Key issue

Origin of The Human Target

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Credits

Writers: Cary Bates, Len Wein
Pencillers: Curt Swan, Dick Giordano
Inkers: Murphy Anderson, Dick Giordano
Letterer: Ben Oda

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Grand Comics Database issue 25984

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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.

Cover

Nick Cardy

Editor

Julius Schwartz

Assistant editor

E. Nelson Bridwell

Cover letters

Gaspar Saladino

Characters

The Human Target· Origin
Christopher Chance
Clark Kent
Superman

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