Action Comics
#513
[Direct]
(November 1980)
DC,
1938 Series
- Volume
- 43
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)
Issue Notes
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); typeset
- Job Number
- S-3460
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I claim this space-island for our people!
- Genre
- superhero
- Reprints
-
in Supermagasinet (Semic, 1982 series) #15/1982 -
in Superman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1973 series) #16 (1981) -
in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1340 (19 de noviembre de 1981) -
in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #15 (décembre 1981) -
in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #15/1982 (uke 30 1982) - in Superman - Collection BD Story (Sage - Sagédition, 1984 series) #4 (4ème trimestre 1985)
-
- Keywords
- spacecraft; Superman Island
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Return of Superman Island
Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-3451
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lana Lang; Bill Logan (WGBS substitute anchor); Warden Miles; Guy Blisher (criminal, dies); Norton Larch (criminal); H.I.V.E. [Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Eliminations] (villainous organization formed of minor foes of the JLA); the Krell (aliens living on Superman Island, also in flashback)
- Synopsis
- Superman deals with the return of Superman Island and the secret inside, as well as the H.I.V.E., a new organization that wants the secret inside that island.
- Reprints
- in Superman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1973 series) #16 (1981)
- in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1340 (19 de noviembre de 1981)
- in Superman Géant (Sage - Sagédition, 1979 series) #15 (décembre 1981)
-
in Superman Family (K. G. Murray, 1982 series) #[nn] ([March 1982] ?) - in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #15/1982 (uke 30 1982)
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The Red Dart's Deadly Arts!
Air Wave; The Atom / comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- S-3056
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Atom [Ray Palmer]; Air Wave [Hal Jordan]; Red Dart [John "The Midas" Mallory]
- Synopsis
- Subbing for Green Arrow, Atom faces the Red Dart and his explosive darts, and gets a little help from Air Wave.
- Reprints
- in Faucon Noir (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #22 (septembre 1981) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
- in Atom (Egmont Ehapa, 1979 series) #4 (1982)
- in The Atom (K. G. Murray, 1982 series) ([1982] ?)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
["I claim this space-island for our people!"]
Superman -
1.
The Return of Superman Island
Superman -
2.
Batman vs. the League of Assassins
Batman; Hostess Twinkies -
3.
The Red Dart's Deadly Arts!
Air Wave; The Atom -
4.
[no title indexed]
Superman in Action
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jan Roar Hansen
- Dave Marchand
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
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