Cover: Nick Cardy

Action Comics #443

Jan 1975 · DC · 0.60 USD

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“At Last! Clark Kent-- Super-Hero!”

This 100-page giant from January 1975 is a genuine treat for DC fans, with Nick Cardy's cover delivering one of the most visually inventive images of the era: Superman grins as he peels back the page itself to reveal a cascade of heroes tumbling out — Batman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, The Flash, and more spilling into view alongside the promise of nine super-villains lurking within. At 60 cents for a full hundred pages, it's a remarkable package anchored by Elliot S! Maggin and Curt Swan's story "At Last! Clark Kent — Super-Hero!" The sheer density of DC's finest assembled on one cover makes this a wonderfully energetic snapshot of mid-seventies superhero comics at their most ambitious.

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writer Elliot S! Maggin · artist Curt Swan · inker Tex Blaisdell · letterer Ben Oda · cover Nick Cardy

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Full credits

writer Elliot S! Maggin

artist Curt Swan

inker Tex Blaisdell

letterer Ben Oda

cover pencils, inks Nick Cardy

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Queen Bee captures all of the Justice League except Superman, who uses Kryptonian technology to reverse Earth residents' perceptions of Clark Kent and Superman. This confuses Brainiac so that Superman can trace Queen Bee's Bee-Men back to her lair and free the Justice League, who then capture her and the other villains.

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