Action Comics
#393
(October 1970)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-08-27
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications, Inc.
- Brand
- DC [character]
- Editing
- Murray Boltinoff; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
- Color
- color
- Dimensions
- standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
- Binding
- saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
- Publishing Format
- was ongoing series
Issue Notes
On-sale date from copyright registration.
Superman Meets Super-Houdini!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- B 732
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Dan Holahan; "Hair-breadth" Holahan
- Reprints
-
in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #3/1971 (26 januari 1971) -
in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #2/1971 ([februar] 1971) -
in Superman from the Thirties to the Eighties (Crown Publishers, 1983 series) (1983) - in The Silver Age of Superman The Greatest Covers of Action Comics from the '50s to the '70s (Abbeville Press, 1995 series) (1995)
-
- Keywords
- escape artists
Superman Meets Super-Houdini!
Superman / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- B-718
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; "Hair-breadth" Holahan; Dan Holahan; Stoney Croy; Mick Leroy; Hack Wheeler; Crip Brand
- Synopsis
- Daredevil escape artist "Hair-breadth" Holahan must confront his secret criminal past when gangsters blackmail him into helping them.
- Reprints
- in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #3/1971 (26 januari 1971)
- in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #2/1971 ([februar] 1971)
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #12/1971 (12.Juni 1971) - in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #1 (1980)
-
- Keywords
- escape artist
Superman Scrapbook
illustration / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Shuster ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-773
- Characters
- Superman
Indexer Notes
Various "action shots" of Superman from the early years.
The Day Superboy Became Superman!
Superman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman [as Geoff Brown]
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- Mike Esposito
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Job Number
- B-727
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superboy [also appears as Clark Kent]; Marla Harvey
- Synopsis
- Superboy encounters student activist Marla Harvey, who challenges his beliefs and assumptions. When she dies in an accident while helping others, he resolves to dedicate himself to her principles.
- Keywords
- civic rights; slum; voting
Indexer Notes
Superboy in College story.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-760
Indexer Notes
letters submitted by Gerard Triano; Richard H. Morrissey; Irene Vartanoff; Douglas Isenstein; Paul Hulka; Jay Zilber
[no title indexed]
It's the Scene / comic story / 1 page
- Script
- Henry Boltinoff
- Pencils
- Henry Boltinoff (signed)
- Inks
- Henry Boltinoff
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Henry Boltinoff
- Job Number
- B-582
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm going to ask Dad for an increase in my allowance.
- Genre
- humor
- Synopsis
- A teenager asks his father for a raise in his allowance.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Superman Meets Super-Houdini!
Superman -
1.
Superman Meets Super-Houdini!
Superman -
2.
Superman Scrapbook
-
3.
The Day Superboy Became Superman!
Superman -
4.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is -
5.
["I'm going to ask Dad for an increase in my allowance."]
It's the Scene
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- Tony R. Rose
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Dwayne Best
- Daniel Thingvold
- Per Sandell
- Matthew Head
- Allen Ross
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- Kyle Weber
- Terry Watkins
- Allen Ross
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Gregory Fischer
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Bob Hughes
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