Action Comics
#509
(July 1980)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 43
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 68
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-04-22
- 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 #178.
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
- ?
- Job Number
- S-3360
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Superman! Why are you doing this to us?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #18/1980 (3. September 1980) -
in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #13 (juin 1981)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
The Great Space-Travel Hoax!
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-3353
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Synopsis
- Superman battles a weird alien and saves a space probe. Clark Kent interviews skeptics who say space travel is impossible. Turns out, the two are connected, as the skeptics are actually aliens who forgot they are aliens.
- Reprints
- in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #18/1980 (3. September 1980)
- in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #13 (juin 1981)
-
The Computers That Saved Metropolis!
Superman / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); William M. Palmer (editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- This is Superman's last heroic act!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Shanna; Alec
- Reprints
-
from Superman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" (DC, 1980 series) (July 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
"Cover" for the advertising insert.
The Computers That Saved Metropolis!
Superman / comic story / 28 pages
- Script
- Cary Bates
- Pencils
- Jim Starlin
- Inks
- Dick Giordano
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Ben Oda
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); William M. Palmer (editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Shanna; Alec; Margaret Wilson; John Bardeen (Nobel scientist, cameo); William Schockley (Nobel scientist, cameo); Walter Brattain (Nobel scientist, cameo); Lana Lang
- Synopsis
- Alec and Shanna use a pair of TRS-80 computers to help Superman stop Major Disaster after Superman's powers become difficult for him to control.
- Reprints
- from Superman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" (DC, 1980 series) (July 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
advertising insert for Radio Shack
[no title indexed]
Superman / illustration / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Ross Andru
- Inks
- ?
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); William M. Palmer (editor)
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Our TRS-80 computer answers check!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Shanna; Alec
- Reprints
- from Superman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" (DC, 1980 series) (July 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
"Back cover" of advertising insert.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Superman! Why are you doing this to us?"]
Superman -
1.
The Great Space-Travel Hoax!
Superman -
2.
A Flash in the Dam
The Flash; Hostess Twinkies -
3.
The Computers That Saved Metropolis!
Superman -
4.
The Computers That Saved Metropolis!
Superman -
5.
["Our TRS-80 computer answers check!"]
Superman -
6.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action -
7.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- John Censullo
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Allen Ross
- Glenn Simpson
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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