Action Comics
#486
[Whitman cover]
(August 1978)
- Volume:
- 41
- Price:
- [none]
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- Indicia Publisher:
- DC Comics, Inc.
- Brand:
- Whitman
- Editing:
- Julius Schwartz
- Format:
- Standard Golden Age, Silver Age, then Modern US color comic; Saddle-stitched (Squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449); ongoing series
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Rich Buckler (signed)
- Inks:
- Frank Giacoia (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- S-2922
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Superman
- Reprints:
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1978 (15. November 1978)
Superman's Time-Killing Trip!
Superman / comic story / 11 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Gerry Conway
- Pencils:
- George Tuska
- Inks:
- Vince Colletta
- Colors:
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters:
- Ben Oda
- Job Number:
- S-2872
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Superman; Halflings; Kampto; Tyros; Lois Lane
- Synopsis:
- Superman travels to the future where he finds the Earth population at war with the Halflings and the sun has turned red, robbing him of his ability to travel home.
- Reprints:
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1978 (15. November 1978)
- in Supermann (Semic AS, 1977 series) #11/1980 (uke 44 1980)
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Letters:
- typeset
- Job Number:
- S-2927
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Tony Edwards, Mark Principe and Philip M. Botwinick.
Hero for a Day
Secret Life of Lex Luthor / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Elizabeth Smith; Thomas E. Smith
- Pencils:
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- Inks:
- Frank McLaughlin
- Colors:
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters:
- Jean Simek
- Job Number:
- S-2730
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- Lex Luthor; Val Colby; Lena Thorul Colby
- Synopsis:
- Lex Luthor escapes prison to deliver a birthday present for his nephew.
- Reprints:
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #21/1978 (4. Oktober 1978)
- in Supermann (Semic AS, 1977 series) #2/1979 (uke 8 1979)
[no title indexed]
Daily Planet / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- Bob Rozakis; ?
- Pencils:
- ?
- Inks:
- ?
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- typeset
Editing
Table of Contents
-
1.
Superman's Time-Killing Trip!
Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
3.
Hero for a Day
Secret Life of Lex Luthor -
4.
[no title indexed]
Daily Planet
This issue was most recently modified by:
- Peter Croome
- Mike Nielsen
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- Jon Ingersoll
- Diverse Hands
- Brian Mowbray
- John Greb
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Lou Mazzella
- Carlos Tasada
- John Douglas Miceli
- Kyle Weber
- Terry Watkins
- Allen Ross
- Jerry Hillegas
- Gregory Fischer
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Bob Hughes
- Darrel McCann
- Ed Boner
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