Action Comics
#487
(September 1978)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 44
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-06-27
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041009
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (credited) (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (credited) (associate editor); Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #157.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
The Atom; Superman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- José Luis GarcÃa-López (signed as
Garcia Lopez) - Inks
- José Luis GarcÃa-López (signed as Garcia Lopez)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- S-2944
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Something has turned the old Daily Planet globe into a guided missile--
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Atom [Ray Palmer]
- Reprints
-
in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1240 -
in Superman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2006 series) ([August] 2006) - in Adventures of Superman: José Luis GarcÃa-López (DC, 2013 series) #2 ([March] 2020)
-
- Keywords
- Daily Planet (newspaper); Daily Planet newspaper; WGBS (television station)
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #487 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/777/w100/777313.jpg?-7687338568134786196)
Super-Origin of Microwave Man!
Superman / comic story / 15 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates (credited)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte (credited as Francisco Chiaramonte)
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo (credited)
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn (credited)
- Job Number
- S-2917
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Farewell, my son!
- Feature Logo
Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Microwave Man; Superman [Clark Kent]
- Synopsis
- After chasing a flying saucer, Superman encounters a strange older man. Turns out the old man used to be Microwave Man, and the alien rays rejuvenated him.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #3/1979 (24. Januar 1979)
-
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (credited)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- #S-2951
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dear Editor: The last time I picked up a Superman comic was 17 years ago.
- Feature Logo
Superman in Action [booth change]
Indexer Notes
Letters from Eileen M. Arnold, Rick Bidard, and Philip M. Botwinick.
Miniature War of the Bat-Knights!
The Atom / comic story / 10 pages
- Script
- Bob Rozakis (credited)
- Pencils
- Alex Saviuk (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte (credited as Francisco Chiaramonte)
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe (credited)
- Letters
- Milt Snapinn (credited)
- Job Number
- S-2908
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- At long last it's happened!
- Feature Logo
The Atom [rounded e]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Bat-Knights; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Jean Loring
- Synopsis
- The Atom and Jean go exploring some caves. After a quick review of the Atom's origin, he and Jean are attacked by miniature men riding bats. Atom rescues Jean from their capture.
- Reprints
- in Atom (Egmont Ehapa, 1979 series) #1 (1979)
-
in Atom (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #1 (3ème trimestre 1981) -
in The Super Heroes Annual (Egmont UK, 1982 series) #1983 (1983)
-
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Something has turned the old Daily Planet globe into a guided missile--"]
The Atom; Superman -
1.
Super-Origin of Microwave Man!
Superman -
2.
Onward and Upward
DC Publishorial -
3.
["Dear Editor: The last time I picked up a Superman comic was 17 years ago."]
Superman in Action -
4.
Miniature War of the Bat-Knights!
The Atom -
5.
["Q: What does Diana (Wonder Woman) Prince of Earth-1 do for a living?"]
The Answer Man -
6.
39 Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez
DC Profiles
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Glenn Simpson
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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