Action Comics #596 [Direct]
(January 1988)

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
1987-10-06
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Mike Carlin (credited as Michael Carlin) (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #44, confirmed from copyright registration.
This issue has variants:

Millennium Week 4 (Table of Contents)

The Spectre; Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Byrne (signed)
Inks
John Byrne (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]
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Hell Is Where the Heart Is... (Table of Contents: 1)

The Spectre; Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
John Byrne (credited)
Pencils
John Byrne (credited)
Inks
John Byrne (credited); Keith Williams (credited)
Colors
Tom Ziuko (credited)
Letters
John Costanza (credited)
Job Number
G-3479
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Spectre [Jim Corrigan]; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang; Mayor Rutherford B. Small; VILLAIN: Dr. Whitney (Manhunter replacement robot, destroyed)
Synopsis
Superman and the Spectre must free the people of Smallville from a simulated death.
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Indexer Notes

A Millennium week 4 crossover which stems directly from Superman #13.

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

Re: Action / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike Carlin
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-2958

Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Dale Coe, Shelby C. Pankratz and D.K. Bickford - and responses from Mike Carlin.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Millennium Week 4
    The Spectre; Superman
  2. 1. Hell Is Where the Heart Is...
    The Spectre; Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Re: Action
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  • Morbus Iff
  • Lou Mazzella
  • John Monagle
  • Mike Nielsen
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