Action Comics
#497
(July 1979)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 42
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-04-24
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893041007
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #167.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (sourced)
- Job Number
- S-3142
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- That huge meteor is loaded with deadly kryptonite!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Editrice Cenisio, 1976 series) #50 -
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1979 (14. November 1979) - in Superman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1973 series) #14 (1980)
-
in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #8 (mai 1980)
-
- Keywords
- kryptonite
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #497 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/883/w100/883619.jpg?-8613458808606534720)
Superman's Command Performance
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates (credited)
- Pencils
- Curt Swan (credited)
- Inks
- Frank Chiaramonte (credited)
- Colors
- Gene D'Angelo (credited)
- Letters
- Ben Oda (credited)
- Job Number
- S-3121
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- There goes the giant meteor I sent hurtling on a collision course with Metropolis!
- Feature Logo
Superman [classic design, angled u bottom]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Steve Lombard; Jimmy Olsen; Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Jerry; Arthur; Mike; Frank; Ryjel
- Synopsis
- Superman is mentally controlled by children who don't realize what they are doing. Turns out an alien kid is participating in order to bring Superman to their clubhouse.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #24/1979 (14. November 1979)
- in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #8 (mai 1980)
-
in Supermann (Semic, 1977 series) #8/1980 (uke 32 1980) -
in The Best of DC (DC, 1979 series) #25 (June 1982)
-
Someone Is Kidnapping the Great Chefs of Gotham City
Batman; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
Volume 79 Issue 17 - Week of April 23, 1979
Daily Planet / in-house column / 0.8 page
- Job Number
- P-317
- Genre
- humor
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["That huge meteor is loaded with deadly kryptonite!"]
Superman -
1.
Superman's Command Performance
Superman -
2.
Someone Is Kidnapping the Great Chefs of Gotham City
Batman; Hostess Cup Cakes -
3.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
4.
Volume 79 Issue 17 - Week of April 23, 1979
Daily Planet -
5.
[no title indexed]
Hembeck
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Bob Hughes
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Joey Sayer
- Douglas Sederberg
- Glenn Simpson
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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