Action Comics
#496
(June 1979)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 42
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-03-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041006
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #166.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Death out of a Bottle!
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Bob Oksner (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (sourced)
- Job Number
- S-3125
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Editorial Bruguera, 1979 series) #4 -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #23/1979 (31. Oktober 1979) -
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #5 (May-June 1980) - in Superman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2006 series) ([August] 2006)
-
- Keywords
- Kandor
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #496 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/875/w100/875289.jpg?7402722807500579741)
Death out of a Bottle
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-3111
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Zurnnunlaxi-Vraxil; Superman [Clark Kent]
- Synopsis
- Superman accidentally brings a Kandorian disease to Earth. In order to make sure the cure works, the Kandorians have to stress Superman out without him knowing it. But their plans to fake an alien invasion are interrupted by a real one. But Superman saves the day and cures the Earth.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Editrice Cenisio, 1976 series) #49 - in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #23/1979 (31. Oktober 1979)
-
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #13/1980 (uke 50 1980) -
in Eks almanah (Dečje novine, 1975 series) #256 (6. januar 1981.)
-
- Keywords
- Kandor
Someone Is Kidnapping the Great Chefs of Gotham City
Batman; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
Volume 76 [79] Issue 12 - Week of March 19, 1979
Daily Planet / in-house column / 0.8 page
- Job Number
- P-312
[no title indexed]
Hembeck / comic story / 0.2 page
- Genre
- humor; superhero
- Characters
- Two-Face
- Reprints
in Indexer Notes
4 panels
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Death out of a Bottle!
Superman -
1.
Death out of a Bottle
Superman -
2.
Someone Is Kidnapping the Great Chefs of Gotham City
Batman; Hostess Cup Cakes -
3.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
4.
Volume 76 [79] Issue 12 - Week of March 19, 1979
Daily Planet -
5.
[no title indexed]
Hembeck
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Tommy Grenlund
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Bob Hughes
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Glenn Simpson
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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