Action Comics
#459
(May 1976)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 39
- Price
- 0.30 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1976-02-26
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Barcode
- 0709893041005
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor); Bob Rozakis (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #127.
Issues 459-486 featured exclusively stories of Superman, with some back-up strips for members of the supporting cast.
Issues 459-486 featured exclusively stories of Superman, with some back-up strips for members of the supporting cast.
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- If one of them doesn't win that fight quick... ...I'm dead!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Blackrock
- Reprints
- Keywords
- hang gliding
Indexer Notes
Pencils credits per GCD discussion (B. Bailey, Steve C., M. Head, B. Hughes, K. Nowlan and S. Whitaker). We previously credited Bob Oksner. Terry Austin and Dan Adkins also suggested as inker. Full art credited to Oksner in The Comic Reader #127 and The Amazing World of DC Comics #10 (1976). Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Twinkieless Gotham City
Batman; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Penguin; Batman; Robin
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Superman's Big Crack-Up!
Superman / comic story / 12 pages
- Job Number
- S-2233
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Clark Kent; Morgan Edge; Steve Lombard; Lola Barnett; Blackrock [Samuel Tanner] (villain); Dr. Silverstone
- Synopsis
- Universal Broadcasting Company creates the superhero Blackrock, hoping to increase their ratings against rival WGBS.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #14/1976 (3. Juli 1976) -
in Superman (Editrice Cenisio, 1976 series) #10 (Ottobre 1976) -
in Batman et Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #7 (décembre 1977) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #51 (1983), #58 (1984)
-
- Keywords
- hang glider; WGBS
Two for the Taxi!
The Private Life of Clark Kent / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S-2257
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Clark Kent; Morgan Edge; Steve Lombard; Miss Conway; Martin Taine; Wade Armstrong
- Synopsis
- Clark Kent solves the mystery of a kidnapped boxer.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #17/1976 (14. August 1976) which is reprinted
-
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #4/1977 ([april] 1977) - in Batman et Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #7 (décembre 1977) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
This feature is continued from Superman (DC, 1939 series) #294.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 0.75 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-2273
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Richy Forman, Michael D. Dargay and Steve Brown.
[no title indexed]
statement of ownership / 0.25 page
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Average circulation given as 232,000 for the last year.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["If one of them doesn't win that fight quick... ...I'm dead!"]
Superman -
1.
Twinkieless Gotham City
Batman; Hostess Twinkies -
2.
Superman's Big Crack-Up!
Superman -
3.
Two for the Taxi!
The Private Life of Clark Kent -
4.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
5.
[no title indexed]
This issue was modified by, among others
- David B
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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