Action Comics
#502
[Whitman]
(December 1979)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 42
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Whitman W [with Face]
- Barcode
- 3041012
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #502.
There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-3227
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Supergirl; Galactic Golem
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Editorial Bruguera, 1979 series) #27 (14 de enero de 1980) -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #5/1980 (5. März 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #502 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/888/w200/888024.jpg?-6561612304631725412)
Fall and Rise of the Star-Child!
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- S-3221
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Supergirl [Linda Lee Danvers]; Galactic Golem; Parasite
- Synopsis
- Superman and Supergirl must raise an alien baby quickly to adulthood, including teaching him about emotions. Superman masquerades as the Galactic Golem and the Parasite along the way.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Editorial Bruguera, 1979 series) #27 (14 de enero de 1980)
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #5/1980 (5. März 1980)
-
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #5 (May-June 1980) -
in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #10 (novembre 1980)
-
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-3232
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Superman -
1.
Fall and Rise of the Star-Child!
Superman -
2.
The Stony-Eyed Medusa
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
4.
Volume 79 Issue 39 - Week of September 24, 1979
Daily Planet
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- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jochen G.
- Peter Croome
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