Action Comics
#563
[Newsstand]
(January 1985)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1984-10-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041001
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor); Tom Condon (managing editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #563 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (signed as
GIFFEN) - Inks
- Bob Oksner (signed as Oksner)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- You're on, Ambush Bug! The winner gets to put his name up in place of Superman's above the Action logo!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ambush Bug; The Blob; Mr. Mxyzptlk; Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
-
in Showcase Presents Ambush Bug (DC, 2009 series) ([May] 2009)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #563 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/932/w200/932755.jpg?7260918107698558675)
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #563 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1/w100/1088.jpg?8182549117703266862)
Black Beauty
Ambush Bug / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Keith Giffen (credited) (plot); Robert Loren Fleming (credited) (script)
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (credited); George Pérez (sourced) (single Bethany Snow panel on p. 1)
- Inks
- Bob Oksner (credited)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin (credited as Tony Tollin)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Job Number
- S-4472
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Ambush Bug (origin); Jack Ryder (cameo); Superman [Clark Kent]; Ronald Morris (cameo); Bethany Snow (cameo); Dr. Derwood Denton (cameo); Ted Baxter (cameo); Brum-El; Larda; Mon-Grel
- Synopsis
- Ambush Bug tells Superman the origin of his costume, which Supes thinks is ridiculous until he realizes it is the same as his own origin.
- Reprints
-
in Super-Team (Epix, 1992 series) #1/1992 (1992) - in Showcase Presents Ambush Bug (DC, 2009 series) ([May] 2009)
-
Mr. Mxyzptlk, Media Star!
Superman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (credited)
- Pencils
- Alex Saviuk (credited)
- Inks
- Dennis Jensen (credited)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin (credited as Tony Tollin)
- Letters
- Ben Oda (credited)
- Job Number
- S-4455
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Josh Coyle; Morgan Edge; Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Mr. Mxyzptlk; Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White
- Synopsis
- Mr. Mxyzptlk causes his usual chaos at the Galaxy Broadcasting building because he wants his own TV show. Worse, Mxyzptlk has cast a spell preventing anyone from saying their own name backwards! But Superman finds the loophole and sends Mxyzptlk away.
- Reprints
in Jimmy Olsen-- Blob!
Superman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Craig Boldman (credited)
- Pencils
- Howard Bender (credited)
- Inks
- Pablo Marcos (credited)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin (credited as Tony Tollin)
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn (credited)
- Job Number
- S-4470
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Blob; Lois Lane; Lucy Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]
- Synopsis
- Jimmy Olsen is turned into a weird blob by a bad batch of his Elastic Lad serum.
- Reprints
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["You're on, Ambush Bug! The winner gets to put his name up in place of Superman's above the Action logo!"]
Superman -
1.
Black Beauty
Ambush Bug -
2.
Mr. Mxyzptlk, Media Star!
Superman -
3.
[no title indexed]
Action Reaction -
4.
Jimmy Olsen-- Blob!
Superman
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- Katie
- Mike Nielsen
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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