Action Comics
#486
(August 1978)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 41
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1978-05-30
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041008
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #156.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Rich Buckler (signed as Buckler)
- Inks
- Frank Giacoia (signed as
GIACOIA) - Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- S-2922
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who is firing at Superman?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1978 (15. November 1978)
-
- Keywords
- red suns
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #486 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/777/w100/777312.jpg?-6677090103024907939)
Superman's Time-Killing Trip!
Superman / comic story / 11 pages
- Job Number
- S-2872
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Halflings; Kampto; Tyros; Lois Lane
- Synopsis
- Superman travels to the future where he finds the Earth population at war with the Halflings and the Sun has turned red, robbing him of his ability to travel home.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1978 (15. November 1978)
-
in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #29 (janvier 1980) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]] -
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #11/1980 (uke 44 1980)
-
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- E. Nelson Bridwell
- Pencils
- Murphy Anderson (illustration)
- Inks
- Murphy Anderson (illustration)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- #S-2927
Indexer Notes
Includes letters from Tony Edwards, Mark Principe and Philip M. Botwinick.
Hero for a Day--?
The Secret Life of Lex Luthor / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Elizabeth Smith; Thomas E. Smith
- Pencils
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- Inks
- Frank McLaughlin
- Colors
- Jerry Serpe
- Letters
- Jean Simek
- Job Number
- S-2730
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lex Luthor; Val Colby; Lena Thorul Colby
- Synopsis
- Lex Luthor escapes prison to deliver a birthday present for his nephew.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #21/1978 (4. Oktober 1978)
-
in Stålmannen (Semic, 1976 series) #2/1979 ([6 februari] 1979) - in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #2/1979 (uke 8 1979)
- in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #29 (janvier 1980) [Alternance de noir et blanc et de couleurs [Color pages alternate with black and white pages]]
-
Volume 78 Issue 22 - Week of May 29, 1978
Daily Planet / in-house column / 1 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis; ?
- Pencils
- ?
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Editing
- Bob Rozakis
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Who is firing at Superman?"]
Superman -
1.
Superman's Time-Killing Trip!
Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
3.
Hero for a Day--?
The Secret Life of Lex Luthor -
4.
Volume 78 Issue 22 - Week of May 29, 1978
Daily Planet
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Dave Marchand
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Fawzy Partridge
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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