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Publishers / DC / Action Comics (1938) / #398

398March 1971
$0.15

Action Comics #398

DC · March 1971 · on sale January 28, 1971

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Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #398
Publication date: March 1971
Key date: March 1971
On-sale date: January 28, 1971
Indicia publisher: National Periodical Publications Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Pied Piper of Steel!	cover	1	pencils: Neal Adams; inks: Dick Giordano; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Superman
1	The Pied Piper of Steel	comic story	14	script: Leo Dorfman; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: John Costanza	Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Morgan Edge; Cy Harkin
2	Spawn of the Unknown	comic story	8	script: Geoff Brown; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Murphy Anderson; letters: John Costanza	Superman; Supergirl; Professor Bruno
3	-	letters page	0.67	script: E. Nelson Bridwell
4	-	statement of ownership	0.33	letters: typeset

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman from the Thirties to the Seventies #[nn]	1971	On eBay ›
Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] ISBN 0517551004	1983	On eBay ›
The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s #[nn] ISBN 0-89660-055-6	1995	On eBay ›
DC Finest: Superman: Kryptonite Nevermore #[nn] ISBN 978-1-79950-165-7	2025	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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