Action Comics (1938 DC) UK Edition comic books

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UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. Superman in "Death Out of a Bottle!" with story by Cary Bates with art by Curt Swan and inks by Frank Chiaramonte. An alien plague threatens death and destruction but Superman finds himself helpless to stop it.

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UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano. "The War for Peace!", script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Dave Hunt; Superman recovers a religious artifact beloved by two races and stops them from going to war upon each other on Christmas Eve. "Brother Rat," script by J. M. DeMatteis, pencils by Don Heck, inks by Don Heck; Aquaman learns from Vulko that Mera will die unless she returns to her other-dimensional world before long; Nonetheless, she accompanies her husband to New York City, where they fight Ocean Master, who leaps off a building to his apparent death. 36 pgs.

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UK edition. Identical to US edition, but has 15p cover price. Cover pencils by Ross Andru, inks by Dick Giordano. "Where the Space-Winds Blows," script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Frank Chiaramonte; Superman tries to prevent an alien hunter from destroying a monster which he soon learns destroyed the alien's planet. "Family Plot," script by J. M. DeMatteis, pencils by Don Heck, inks by Don Heck; Aquaman, Mera, and Cal Durham learn the strange history of Aquamans mother: that Atlanna was a survivor of the original Atlantis, thanks to her taking a serum of her own invention that made her amphibious and nearly immortal; that her sister, Atlena, was a priestess of the Delphius Oracle, which proclaimed that a savior would be born to become king of sea and land people; that Atlanna did not really die in Aquamans childhood, but was merely rendered comatose. 36 pgs.