Action Comics
#499
[British]
(September 1979)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 42
- Price
- 0.15 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041009
- 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) #499.
There exist further variants:
As the World Turns -- for the Last Time!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood (sourced)
- Letters
- Todd Klein (sourced)
- Job Number
- S-3170
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Editorial Bruguera, 1979 series) #22 (10 de diciembre de 1979)
-
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #499 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/889/w100/889096.jpg?1968253674196384800)
As the World Turns... For the Last Time!
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates (credited)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited)
- Inks
- Vince Colletta (credited)
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo (credited)
- Letters
- Todd Klein (credited)
- Job Number
- S-3132
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Vartox; Lana Lang; Perry White (cameo); Lois Lane (cameo); Jimmy Olsen (cameo); Jor-El (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- Vartox tries to tell Superman that Earth is in danger, but gets distracted by Lana Lang. Superman soon discovers that the whole world believes the Earth will be destroyed. Superman and Vartox figure out that the remains of his world can save the Earth. Vartox decides to leave Earth and go find a world that needs a hero.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Editorial Bruguera, 1979 series) #22 (10 de diciembre de 1979)
-
in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #22 (1980) -
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #13/1980 (uke 50 1980) -
in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #9 (septembre 1981)
-
DC Dollar Comics -- Buck for Buck the Best Buy for Your Money!
promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (signed as ENB)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (logo illustration)
- Inks
- ? (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-3175
- Feature Logo
Superman in Action [booth change]
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by John Phillips Mitchell, Bob Rowe, Tony Edwards, and Eric Petty.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
As the World Turns -- for the Last Time!
Superman -
1.
As the World Turns... For the Last Time!
Superman -
2.
DC Dollar Comics -- Buck for Buck the Best Buy for Your Money!
-
3.
["This man is Jor-El of Krypton"]
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes -
4.
["Ah, there you are, Zan and Jayna!"]
Super Friends -
5.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
6.
The Answer Man's Guide to the Superman Movie Contest
-
7.
100 Pc. Toy Soldiers
100 Toy Soldiers
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- Jim Van Dore
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