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Cover: Neal Adams & Dick Giordano
Action Comics #400
“My Son... Is He Man or Beast?”
writer Leo Dorfman · artist Curt Swan · inker Murphy Anderson · letterer Ben Oda · cover Neal Adams, Dick Giordano
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writer Leo Dorfman
artist Curt Swan
inker Murphy Anderson
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils Neal Adams
cover inks Dick Giordano
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Superman becomes the guardian of Gregor, a teenage boy, when the boy's scientist father dies. However, Gregor hates Superman for accidentally causing him to become a genetic freak who changes into animals without warning. Supermen gradually trains him to control his powers and their relationship changes, until finally Gregor sacrifices his life to save others.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).