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Action Comics#422
Cover: Nick Cardy
Action Comics #422
“The TV Show That Menaced Metropolis!”
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Cast · 4 characters
Full credits
writer Cary Bates
artist Curt Swan
inker Murphy Anderson
letterer Ben Oda
cover pencils, inks Nick Cardy
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Woodrow Nescott, a teen who has lived his life quarantined due to a rare environmental disease which can create monstrous, deadly white blood cell blobs, breaks out of his home to help an actor who he believes is actually the character he portrays on TV. When the actor tries to manipulate Woodrow into killing his TV rival, Superman intervenes. The actor is absorbed by the blob and Superman finds a cure for Woodrow's condition.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).