Action Comics
#536
[Newsstand]
(October 1982)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 45
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-07-22
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041010
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #203.
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #536 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #536 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-3962
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What am I bid for the right to kill Superman?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; The Mole; Omega Men [Primus; Kalista; Nimbus; Broot]
- Keywords
- bondage; extraterrestrials
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Battle Beneath the Earth!
Superman / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Paul Kupperberg (script); Marv Wolfman (plot)
- Pencils
- Joe Staton
- Inks
- Sal Trapani
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- S-3972
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; The Mole (villain); Lord Satanis (flashback); Syrene (flashback); The Omega Men [Primus; Kalista; Nimbus; Harpis; Broot] (guest-stars); Cave Carson (guest-star); New Teen Titans [Wonder Girl; Changeling; Kid Flash; Robin [Dick Grayson]; Raven; Cyborg] (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Superman, at half-power and captured by the Mole, is put up for auction. Lois Lane and the Omega Men track down Cave Carson to get his help in finding Superman. The group saves Superman, and he takes the Omega Men to the Justice League satellite to get them fuel. While there, Superman rescues the New Teen Titans from dying in space.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #23/1982 (10. November 1982) -
in Les Jeunes T. (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #4 - La sœur maléfique (juillet 1985)
-
- Keywords
- Fortress of Solitude; Justice League Satellite
Indexer Notes
Omega Men story continues in New Teen Titans #24.
I Talk to the Seas, but They Don't Listen to Me!
Aquaman / comic story / 7 pages
- Job Number
- S-3955
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Mera (cameo)
- Synopsis
- Aquaman misses his wife, and his having weird dreams about her. He volunteers for a Navy experiment to examine memories, and meets a woman who looks just like Mera.
[no title indexed]
Action Reaction / letters page / 2 pages
- Job Number
- S-3966
Indexer Notes
Letters from Domenic Romano, Martin F. Cripps, Kent A. Phenis, Leona Cantin, Mark Lagasse, Tim Wahowske, and Wallace Lee Hopkins.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["What am I bid for the right to kill Superman?"]
Superman -
1.
Battle Beneath the Earth!
Superman -
2.
I Talk to the Seas, but They Don't Listen to Me!
Aquaman -
3.
[no title indexed]
Action Reaction
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