Action Comics
#394
(November 1970)
DC,
1938 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1970-09-29
- 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 -- Midas of Metropolis
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- B-766
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Lois Lane
- Reprints
-
in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #6/1971 (9 mars 1971) -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #7/1971 (3.April 1971) -
in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #74 ([April 1972] ?) -
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
- currency; heat vision
Midas of Metropolis!
Superman / comic story / 14 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-757
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Cyrus Brand (villain); Sheik Hassan; Rembrandt Regan
- Synopsis
- When Superman meets billionaire Cyrus Brand, he begins to compete with the tycoon, inexplicably trying to amass an even larger fortune.
- Reprints
- in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #6/1971 (9 mars 1971)
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #7/1971 (3.April 1971)
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #74 ([April 1972] ?)
-
in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #33 (mai 1980) - in Superman Taschenbuch (Egmont Ehapa, 1976 series) #33 (1981)
- in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #5 (1982)
-
- Keywords
- counterfeiting
It's a Plane! It's a Bird--No, It's a Swan... and Anderson
text article / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell ?
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (illustrations)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (illustrations)
- Colors
- ? (illustrations)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-780
- Genre
- biography
Indexer Notes
biographies of Curt Swan and Murphy Anderson with self-portraits
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell ?
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (logo illustration)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (logo illustration)
- Colors
- ? (logo illustration)
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- B-793
Indexer Notes
letters submitted by Gerard Triano; Thomas Ghaney; Neil Kelly; Stan Timmons; Lyle Campbell
Requiem for a Hot Rod!
Superman / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Leo Dorfman [as Geoff Brown]
- Pencils
- Curt Swan
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- B-764
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [also appears as Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; "Coffin" Crowley
- Synopsis
- Clark defeats a bullying drag racer at his own game.
- Reprints
- in Stålmannen (Williams Förlags AB, 1969 series) #6/1971 (9 mars 1971)
- in All Star Adventure Comic (K. G. Murray, 1959 series) #77 ([October 1972] ?)
- in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #1 (1980)
- in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #100 (mars 1986)
-
in Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Superman -- Midas of Metropolis
Superman -
1.
Midas of Metropolis!
Superman -
2.
It's a Plane! It's a Bird--No, It's a Swan... and Anderson
-
3.
[no title indexed]
Where the Action Is -
4.
Requiem for a Hot Rod!
Superman -
5.
Super Science Super Sorcery
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6.
[no title indexed]
Direct Currents -
7.
["Dexter, call a plumber! Hurry!"]
Dexter
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