Action Comics #598 [Direct]
(March 1988)

DC, 1938 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-12-01
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike Carlin (editor); Dick Giordano (executive)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #46.

Superman's hometown is misspelled "Metroplis" on the front cover of all published copies.
This issue has variants:

Checkmate Blows Into Metropolis! (Table of Contents)

Checkmate; Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Lois Lane
Reprints
Keywords
mushroom cloud; nuclear explosion

Checkmate! (Table of Contents: 1)

Checkmate; Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Kupperberg (co-plot, script); John Byrne (co-plot)
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
Ty Templeton
Colors
Petra Goldberg
Letters
John Costanza

Job Number
G-3666
Genre
spy; superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Checkmate [Harry Stein; Harvey Bullock; Knight-Two] (introduction); Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Cat Grant; Perry White; The Jackal; Morgan Edge (villain); Achmed Khareemali (villain, dies); The Fist of Allah (an armored terrorist, villain, introduction); The Jackal (villain, introduction); the Angels of Allah (a terrorist group, villains, introduction)
Synopsis
Superman and Checkmate take out the terrorists who have captured Lois Lane.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Intro and 1st Checkmate, the law-enforcement agency which spins off into its own book.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Re: Action / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Mike Carlin ?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-3070

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Ricardo Padiua, Peter Meilaender, Neil Ahlquist, Charlie Harris, Abe Rodriguez, Kiril Kundurazief, Michael D.Z., Juan Carlos Alvarez, Todd Standish, PFC Jonathan Hook and Jody Hamby.

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Checkmate Blows Into Metropolis!
    Checkmate; Superman
  2. 1. Checkmate!
    Checkmate; Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Re: Action
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  • Fawzy Partridge
  • Antonio Pontes Junior
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Glenn Simpson
  • Daniel Thingvold
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