Superman #390 [Direct]
(December 1983)

DC, 1939 Series
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Volume
45
Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.25 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-08-23
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gil Kane (signed)
Inks
Gil Kane (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
?
Job Number
S-4241
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Vartox
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Indexer Notes

Art credits and job number confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, supplied by DC Comics. Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

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Lost on a Comet! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates (Plot); Elliot Maggin (Script)
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Dave Hunt
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Milt Snapinn
Job Number
S-4250
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Vartox; Lana Lang; Perry White; Jimmy Olsen; Danny (delivery boy); Wallace Gurkheim (Lana Lang's secret admirer)
Synopsis
Vartox finds himself with a memory loss and travels to Earth to seek the aid of Superman. Lana's secret admirer gets bolder in his attempts to reach Lana.
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Indexer Notes

Job number and page count confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, supplied by DC Comics.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-4246

Indexer Notes

Job number and page count confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, supplied by DC Comics.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Superman
  2. 1. Lost on a Comet!
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Metropolis Mailbag
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
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