Action Comics
#457
(March 1976)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 39
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1975-12-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor); Bob Rozakis (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #125.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-2214
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Superman-- My dying wish is to know your secret identity--
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Jonathan Ross
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- And I Can Prove It!
Superman / comic story / 13 pages
- Job Number
- S-2152
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Whirlicane (1st); Pete Ross; Jonathan Ross; Steve Lombard
- Synopsis
- Superman exposes his secret identity to Jonathan Ross and defeats Whirlicane.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Editrice Cenisio, 1976 series) #11 (Novembre 1976) -
in Wundergirl (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #12 (1977) -
in Batman et Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #6 (août-septembre-octobre 1977) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] -
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #25 (June 1982)
-
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (signed as E. N. B.)
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (illustration)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-2223
Flight of the Nutty Kid!
Black Canary; Green Arrow / comic story / 5 pages
- Job Number
- S-2154
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Green Arrow; Black Canary; Lex Luthor
- Synopsis
- Black Canary stops a kidnapping of the Nutty Kid alias Lex Luthor.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Editrice Cenisio, 1976 series) #11 (Novembre 1976)
-
in Super Adventure Album (K. G. Murray, 1976 ? series) #4 ([Circa 1976-1977]) [minus 1 page]
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Continued in Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #458.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Superman-- My dying wish is to know your secret identity--"]
Superman -
1.
Superman, You're Not Clark Kent-- And I Can Prove It!
Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
3.
The Cup Cake Caper
Captain Marvel / Shazam!; Hostess Cup Cakes -
4.
Justice for All Includes Children!
Superman -
5.
Flight of the Nutty Kid!
Black Canary; Green Arrow
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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