Action Comics #591 [Direct]
(August 1987)

DC, 1938 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-05-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Andy Helfer (editor); Mike Carlin (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

Superman vs. Superboy (Table of Contents)

Superboy; Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Superboy [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (Pocket Universe); Legion of Super-Heroes [Blok; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Invisible Kid II [Jacques Foccart]; Sun Boy [Dirk Morgna]]; Krypto
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Past Imperfect (Table of Contents: 1)

Superboy; Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
John Byrne (figure inks); Keith Williams (background inks)
Colors
Tom Ziuko
Letters
John Costanza

Job Number
G-3228
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Legion of Super-Heroes [Blok; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Invisible Kid II [Jacques Foccart]; Sun Boy [Dirk Morgna]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen] (cameo flashback); Cosmic Boy [Rokk Krinn] (cameo flashback); Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz] (cameo flashback)]; Superboy [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (Pocket Universe); Pete Ross (Pocket Universe); Martha Kent (Pocket Universe); Jonathan Kent (Pocket Universe); Krypto (Pocket Universe); Time Trapper
Synopsis
The Time Trapper explains how he created the Pocket Universe. Superman and Superboy stop fighting and the Legion and Superboy take off in pursuit of the Time Trapper.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

The existence of the pre-Crisis Superboy/Legion stories are reconciled with the current Superman continuity. Story continues from SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #8 and story continues in LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES (DC, 1984 series) #38.

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

Re: Action / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Job Number
L-2797

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Paul and Randy Taylor-Rosenthal, Marc Mielke, Ronald Wilk, Fred L. DeBoom, Garrett H. Omata, David Alan Wright and Vince Bayless.

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

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

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Superman vs. Superboy
    Superboy; Superman
  2. 1. Past Imperfect
    Superboy; Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Re: Action
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
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