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I first purchased my original copy of the above comic sometime back in 1973 (when I was yet a schoolboy), and though I've always remembered the interior story, I'd forgotten the cover and whether it was an issue of Superman or Action Comics, and also precisely which number it was. Then I saw it on fellow blogger McScotty's 'That Was Then' blog and promptly bought a replacement via ebay. (Incidentally, DC's July '72 cover-dated issues marked a return to standard comics size after their 25 cents 52 page line introduced the year before.)
Gregory Reed, an actor who plays Superman in movies and TV, was introduced in this issue and appeared again in several others. I seem to recall seeing him in the follow-up to this tale in Action Comics #445, wherein Reed has now had plastic surgery and is a dead ringer for Superman. (I wonder if anyone would notice his resemblance to Clark Kent should the actor ever don a pair of spectacles?) I no longer remember if I saw any of Reed's subsequent appearances before his cameo in Superman #297, but that's the last time I recollect seeing him in a Superman mag.
So another one returned to the fold, allowing me to step 49 years back into the past for a brief but welcome moment, and enjoy again the sublime art of Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson. If you're around the same age as myself, see if any of the following pages ring any bells in memory's belfry - and if so, feel free to share them with your fellow Crivvies.
(And as a bonus, I've included a couple of pages from the Metamorpho back-up tale.)
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