Action Comics
#439
(September 1974)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 37
- Price
- 0.20 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1974-06-25
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- National Periodical Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
The Line of DC Super-Stars
- Editing
- Julius Schwartz; E. Nelson Bridwell (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #107.
Too Big to Live!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-1785
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Captain Strong
- Reprints
-
in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #5/1975 ([mai] 1975) -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #12/1975 (7. Juni 1975)
-
- Keywords
- rowboats
Indexer Notes
Credits for pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
Too Big to Live!
Superman / comic story / 14 pages
- Job Number
- S-1773
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Captain Strong; Carnox; Olivia Tallow; S. T. A. R. Labs; Mr. Mitchel
- Synopsis
- The spaceman Carnox was caught on Earth 1 million years ago and is revived in the present. He has got a disease that can be cured by Captain Strong's sauncha plants.
- Reprints
- in Supermann (Illustrerte Klassikere / Williams Forlag, 1969 series) #5/1975 ([mai] 1975)
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #12/1975 (7. Juni 1975)
-
in Batman et Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #5 (juin-juillet-août 1977) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] - in Superman Extra (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #5 (1982)
-
Indexer Notes
Captain Strong, Olivia Tallow and Carnox are modelled after Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto.
Danger in Two Dimensions!
The Atom / comic story / 6 pages
- Job Number
- S-1776
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Atom; Professor Myles Adrian (villain); Jean Loring
- Synopsis
- Professor Myles Adrian has gained the power to shrink to 2 dimensions, but is dying by it.
- Reprints
- in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #8 (juillet-août 1977) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
- in Atom (Egmont Ehapa, 1979 series) #1 (1979)
- in Atom (Arédit-Artima, 1981 series) #1 (3ème trimestre 1981)
-
in Aquaman and Captain Comet (K. G. Murray, 1982 series) ([February 1982] ?)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Part 2. Story continues from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #438.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell (signed as E. N. B.)
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (illustration)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- S-1791
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Too Big to Live!
Superman -
1.
Too Big to Live!
Superman -
2.
Danger in Two Dimensions!
The Atom -
3.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- CTGarry
- Matthew Head
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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