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Title: ACTION COMICS No. 242
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Publisher:DC [Colophon: National Comics Publications, Inc.]
Date Published: July, 1958
Description:

CGC certified: VG+ (4.5). Off-white to white pages. Curt Swan cover. Stories and art by Otto Binder, Al Plastino, Jim Mooney, others. Origin and 1st appearance: Braniac; 1st appearance: Shrunken city of Kandor. GPAnalysis: A 4.5 sold for $2280 in February 2022.

Debut of Braniac, perhaps the only comic book villain whose name has become a noun (according to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, a brainiac ("br?-n?-ak") is "a very intelligent person" (duh). "It was Brainiac who, sometime prior to the death of the planet Krypton, literally stole the Kryptonian city of Kandor, reducing it to microscopic size with a diabolical shrinking ray and preserving it aboard his spacecraft inside a large glass bottle until it was finally recovered by Superman and placed for safekeeping inside his Fortress of Solitude." — Michael L. Fleisher, The Great Superman Book. Warner: 1978, p. 29.

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