Best Place to Sell Action Comics #868
Publisher: DC, 2008
About Action Comics #868
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COVER DETAILS
Characters: Superman; Brainiac
Pencils: Gary Frank (signed)
Inks: Gary Frank (signed)
Colors: Brad Anderson (signed)
STORY DETAILS
Characters: Superman; Brainiac; Supergirl [Kara Zor-El]; Catherine Grant; Lois Lane; Ultra the Multi-Alien (cameo); Koko; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Steve Lombard (cameo); Ron Troupe (cameo)
Synopsis: Supergirl visits the Daily Planet, looking for Clark, but making an enemy of Cat Grant in the meantime. Superman is still unconscious on Brainiac's ship, being probed. After awakening and destroying the Brainiac probes, he explores the ship, fighting Kono, finding various people (including Ultra) in suspended animation, finding a room of bottled cities, and hearing Kryptonese. He tracks the latter to a particular city in a bottle: Kandor. The real Brainiac awakens, and they confront each other. Brainiac has traced Superman back to Earth, which he now plans to gather knowledge from.
Pages: 22.000
Script: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Gary Frank
Inks: Jon Sibal
Letters: Rob Leigh
Notes: Story continued from the previous issue, and continues in the next issue. The Kryptonese text on page 11 is translated as "DO YOU SEE THAT", "A SHADOW", "A SHADOW IN THE SKY", "THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SHADOW IN THE SKY", "WHAT IS IT".
Data Courtesy of Grand Comics Database under Creative Commons license
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