Action Comics #647 (1989) - Printings, Contents and Key Issues

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Brainiac Trilogy, Part One	cover	1	pencils: George Pérez; inks: George Pérez; letters: Todd Klein	Brainiac, Milton Moses Fine, Clark Kent, Superman, Vril Dox
2	Brain Drain [The Brainiac Trilogy, Part 1]	comic story	22	script: Roger Stern; pencils: Kerry Gammill, George Pérez; inks: Brett Breeding; colors: Glenn Whitmore; letters: Bill Oakley	Brainiac, John Corben, Milton Moses Fine, Sydney Happersen, Gretchen Kelley, Clark Kent, Lex Luthor, Metallo, Superman, Vril Dox
9	The Great Batman Deal!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset	Batman, Bruce Wayne
11	-	letters page	2	script: Mike Carlin

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 10 sequences, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; barcode 07098930410911

Collection	Year
Superman: Cover to Cover #[nn] ISBN 1-4012-0770-7; 978-1-4012-0770-0	2006	On eBay ›
Adventures of Superman: George Pérez #[nn] ISBN 978-1-77950-012-0	2020	On eBay ›

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