Man of Action
Action Comics 692

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Action Comics #692 Universal
Grade: 9.8
Page Quality: WHITE
Certification #: 2024151012
Owner: Brandon Shepherd

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: Man of Action
Date Added: 5/6/2019
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

"And Who, Disguised as Clark Kent?"
Cover Date: October, 1993

Roger Stern & Karl Kesel story
Jackson Guice & Denis Rodier art
Kerry Gammill & Jackson Guice cover

Supergirl and Doctor Occult appearance.

Grade Date: 04/03/2019
Won on eBay: 04/26/2019 - $58.98

The cover of Action Comics #692 captured my imagination as a kid, drawing me in with the classic transformation scene. This issue explains not only the return of Clark Kent but Superman's experience in the afterlife. Supernatural detective Doctor Occult (also created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster) appears to help Superman understand that he was actually not in a coma as he thought, but that he really perished. To help explain to the public the return of Clark Kent, a rescue scene is staged from the rubble of a building toppled by Superman's deadly encounter with Doomsday, where several survivors are found, along with reporter Clark Kent. Kent appears with longer hair and explains that there just so happened to be an old bomb shelter nearby with rations that he survived on, convenient.

I liked this cover so much that I copied it in my sketch book; I cropped the hair in the back. I got my copy of the issue in 1994 and drew the sketch in 1999. I also have the Return of Superman Factory Set of trading cards from Skybox, which includes a three ring binder featuring part of the cover of AC #692, a complete Return of Superman card set (which I also have separately), a special silver foil card only available in the factory set and boasts a limited production of 35,000 sets. This issue is also the last in the series where the "direct" edition features art work or a logo instead of UPC code in the white box that newsstand editions show. Every direct edition from now on reads "Direct Sales" next to a UPC code.


Action Comics #692 Reprint History:
The Return of Superman (1993) – partially with a different ending page for the TPB
Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (2013) - completely
Superman: The Return of Superman (2016)
The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (New Edition) (2019)
 
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