Action Comics
#402
(July 1971)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1971-05-27
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [character]
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
This Hostage Must Die
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Neal Adams
- Inks
- Neal Adams
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- B-1016
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #23/1971 (13.November 1971) -
in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #174 (Circa February 1974) -
in Stålmannen (Semic, 1976 series) #13/1979 ([11 december] 1979) -
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #13/1979 (uke 50 1979) -
in The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s (Abbeville Press, 1995 series) (1995) -
in سوبرمان [Superman] (المطبوعات المصورة [Illustrated Publications], 1964 series) #402 -
in Superman (3ª Série) (Editora Brasil-América [EBAL], 1964 series) #98 [cover]
-
- Keywords
- American Indians; bondage; Native Americans; spears; stereotyping of Native Americans; torture
Indexer Notes
Pencils and inks credits confirmed in the letters page to Action Comics #406.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #402 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/861/w100/861167.jpg?-6936737514229804581)
This Hostage Must Die!
Superman / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- B965
- Feature Logo
Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Frank Haldane (villain); Red Hawk; Moon Flower
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #23/1971 (13.November 1971)
- in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #174 (Circa February 1974)
- in Stålmannen (Semic, 1976 series) #13/1979 ([11 december] 1979) [2 sidor bortredigerade]
- in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #13/1979 (uke 50 1979) [2 pages removed]
- in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #41 (1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Story continues from Action Comics #401.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell ?
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (logo)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (logo)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-1014
- Feature Logo
Where the Action Is
The Feud of the Titans!
Superman; Tales of the Fortress / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman (credited as Geoff Browne)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (credited)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Feature Logo
- Superman [classic design, angled u bottom];
Tales of the Fortress - Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Supergirl
- Reprints
- in MV Comix (Egmont Ehapa, 1968 series) #18/1972 (26 August 1972)
-
in Superman et Batman et Robin (Sage - Sagédition, 1969 series) #50 (5 février 1973) - in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #3/1973 (27 februari 1973)
- in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #2/1973 ([mars] 1973)
- in Superman Supacomic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #167 (Circa July 1973)
- in Serie-pocket (Semic, 1977 series) #36 (1979) [2. translation]
- in Supermann årsalbum (Semic, 1978 series) #1981 (1980) [3. translation]
-
- Keywords
- Fortress of Solitude; Kandor
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Table of Contents
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0.
This Hostage Must Die
Superman -
1.
This Hostage Must Die!
Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is -
3.
The Feud of the Titans!
Superman; Tales of the Fortress
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