Action Comics
#521
[Newsstand]
(July 1981)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 44
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1981-04-23
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041007
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #190.
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #521 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #521 [Direct]. 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-3644
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- A new costumed woman joining the fight! But on which side -- mine or theirs?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; The Vixen; Atom (inset); Aquaman (inset)
- Reprints
-
in Supermagasinet (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1982 -
in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #4 (1981) -
in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1982 (uke 8 1982) [Some backgrounds removed] -
in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #17 (juin 1982) [Modifié et remis en couleurs [Edited and recolored]]
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #521 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1/w200/1046.jpg?8068723065786858322)
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #521 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1188/w100/1188969.jpg?-5483773465890654578)
The Deadly Rampage of the Lady Fox
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-3604
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent] Lana Lang; Morgan Edge; The Vixen (intro, guest star); Mule (villain)
- Synopsis
- Superman meets the Vixen as the two battle poachers in Africa.
- Reprints
- in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #4 (1981)
- in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #4/1982 (uke 8 1982)
- in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #17 (juin 1982)
-
Indexer Notes
The Vixen is credited on the splash page as created by Gerry Conway.
Gold for Dessert
Hostess Twinkies; Plastic Man / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero; humor
Grow, Little Growfish!
Aquaman; The Atom / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- S-3664
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; an aquatic blob (villain)
- Synopsis
- Aquaman and the Atom investigate a weird shrinking blob creature.
- Reprints
- in Hercule (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #28 (juillet 1983) [N&B [B&W]]
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["A new costumed woman joining the fight! But on which side -- mine or theirs?"]
Superman -
1.
The Deadly Rampage of the Lady Fox
Superman -
2.
Gold for Dessert
Hostess Twinkies; Plastic Man -
3.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
4.
Grow, Little Growfish!
Aquaman; The Atom
This issue was modified by
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Jim Van Dore
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