Action Comics
#508
[Whitman]
(June 1980)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 43
- 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
- 3041006
- 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) #508.
There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (sourced)
- Job Number
- S-3341
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Thunderation! Who could have done that to you -- my son?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Jonathan Kent; Lois Lane
- Reprints
-
in Superman Pocketbook (Egmont/Methuen, 1976 series) #19 -
in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #28 (1980) -
in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #45 (mai 1981) [Modifié [Edited]]
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Secret World of Jonathan Kent!
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-3334
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Jonathan Kent, kindly foster-father to Clark (Superboy) Kent, tragically died many years ago...
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Pa Kent [Jonathan Kent]; Starshine; Lois Lane; April Marygold; May Marygold; Lana Lang (television); Perry White; Morgan Edge; Steve Lombard; two unnamed aliens
- Synopsis
- Superman battles Starshine and his powers of suggestion. Then we learn the secret of Jonathan Kent's return to life.
- Reprints
- in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #28 (1980)
-
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #11 (April 1981) - in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #45 (mai 1981)
- in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, 1983 series) (1983)
- in Superman in the Eighties (DC, 2006 series) ([June] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- Clinton Street; Metropolis; Smallville; WGBS-TV Studios
A Flash in the Dam
The Flash; Hostess Twinkies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I want everybody to be miserable and unhappy like me.
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Flash [Barry Allen]; The Destroyer
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-3346
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's true. No one appreciates Cary Bates. Everyone flatters O'Neil and Wein and Pasko.
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
Indexer Notes
Letters from Kenneth Williams, Tamsyn O'Flynn, Steve Thompson, Francis Hertzberg, and Tony Edwards.
Volume 80 Issue 12 - Week of March 24, 1980
The Answer Man; Daily Planet; Direct Currents / in-house column / 0.8 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Fred Hembeck; typeset
- Editing
- Bob Rozakis (editor); Lynne Gelfer (production)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Is the World Crazy?
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Superwoman; Superboy; Wonder Warrior; Bob Rozakis
Indexer Notes
Promo for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #349 with illustration from the cover (by Andru & Giordano). Promo for All-Out War (DC, 1979 series) #6. Direct Currents: On Sale Week of April 7th. Ask the Answer Man!: questions from Mike Elrod, Danny Staton, Aaron Eisenkrantz, Robert C. Grombach, Robert Sulcov, Jim Stribling, Jeff Ellis, and 2 unsigned.
[no title indexed]
Hembeck / comic story / 0.2 page
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Swamp Thing
Indexer Notes
Hembeck's strip with the Swamp Thing.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Thunderation! Who could have done that to you -- my son?"]
Superman -
1.
The Secret World of Jonathan Kent!
Superman -
2.
A Flash in the Dam
The Flash; Hostess Twinkies -
3.
["It's true. No one appreciates Cary Bates. Everyone flatters O'Neil and Wein and Pasko."]
Superman in Action -
4.
Volume 80 Issue 12 - Week of March 24, 1980
The Answer Man; Daily Planet; Direct Currents -
5.
[no title indexed]
Hembeck
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Jochen G.
- Mike Nielsen
- Dan Stevenson
- Jim Van Dore
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