(January 1979)

DC, 1938 Series
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Volume
42
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1978-10-24
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893041001
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #161.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ross Andru (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
?
Job Number
S-3034
First Line of Dialogue or Text
At last -- I, Brainiac triumph!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Hawkman; Brainiac
Reprints
Keywords
spacecraft

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #491 Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #491 [British] Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #491 [Whitman]
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A Matter of Light and Death! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Frank Chiaramonte
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Karin Kish
Job Number
S-3022
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Brainiac (villain); Hawkman; Theodore J. Henkin; Jerry
Synopsis
Diverted by Hawkman, Superman lands in northern Oregon where he hatches a plan. He engages Brainiac's ship, then drags it to the location of a supernova, where he powers up enough to penetrate Brainiac's force shield, enter his spacecraft, and knock him out.
Reprints

Penguins on Parade (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Hostess Fruit Pies; Penguin / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Superman in Action / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-3041

Volume 78 Issue 43 - Week of October 23, 1978 (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Daily Planet / in-house column / 0.8 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Hembeck / comic story / 0.2 page (report information)

Script
Fred Hembeck
Pencils
Fred Hembeck
Inks
Fred Hembeck
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
humor; superhero
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["At last -- I, Brainiac triumph!"]
    Superman
  2. 1. A Matter of Light and Death!
    Superman
  3. 2. Penguins on Parade
    Hostess Fruit Pies; Penguin
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Superman in Action
  5. 4. Volume 78 Issue 43 - Week of October 23, 1978
    Daily Planet
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Hembeck
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Weldon Adams
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Tony R. Rose
  • Jim Van Dore
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