(May 1980)

DC, 1938 Series
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Volume
43
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980-02-26
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893041005
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #177.
This issue has variants:

The Miraculous Return of Jonathan Kent! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ross Andru (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
Tatjana Wood
Letters
?
Job Number
S-3319
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Jonathan Kent
Keywords
cemeteries; graves; graveyards; headstones; tombstones

Indexer Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #507 Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #507 [Whitman]
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The Miraculous Return of Jonathan Kent! (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
Milt Snapinn
Job Number
S-3328
First Line of Dialogue or Text
And thanks to Superman, the Queen Dory was pulled away from the killer typhoon intact--
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Lana Lang; Jonathan Kent; Josh Coyle; Starshine
Synopsis
Clark Kent's long dead father, Jonathan Kent, suddenly shows up alive and well in Metropolis.
Reprints
Keywords
hippie

An Arrow in Time (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies / 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-3326

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

DC Puzzle / activity / 0.83 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Part of The DC Feature Page. Crossword puzzle.

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

The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.17 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Miraculous Return of Jonathan Kent!
    Superman
  2. 1. The Miraculous Return of Jonathan Kent!
    Superman
  3. 2. An Arrow in Time
    Green Arrow; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Superman in Action
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    DC Puzzle
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    The Answer Man
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