Action Comics #591 [Newsstand]
(August 1987)

DC, 1938 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Price
0.75 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1987-05-26
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893041008
Editing
Andy Helfer (editor); Mike Carlin (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #39.
This issue is a variant of Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #591 [Direct]. There exist further 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
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #591 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #591 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for Action Comics (1938 series) #591 [Canadian]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

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)

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

Script
Dick Giordano
Letters
typeset
Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
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...
This issue was modified by
  • Katie
  • Thomas Johnson
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.