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Issue: Action Comics #508

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Publication Date: June 1980

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Issues: #508 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)

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Variant: Whitman

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: Whitman TV Comic

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 43

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 3041006

Price: $0.40 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock:

Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Variants3

Action Comics #508 [Standard Cover]

Action Comics #508 [British]

Action Comics #508 [Whitman]

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Content Items (6 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Jonathan Kent; Lois Lane

First Line: Thunderation! Who could have done that to you -- my son?

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3341

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

The Secret World of Jonathan Kent!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Pa Kent [Jonathan Kent]; Starshine; Lois Lane; April Marygold; May Marygold; Lana Lang (television); Perry White; Morgan Edge; Steve Lombard; two unnamed aliens

First Line: Jonathan Kent, kindly foster-father to Clark (Superboy) Kent, tragically died many years ago...

Synopsis: Superman battles Starshine and his powers of suggestion. Then we learn the secret of Jonathan Kent's return to life.

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Pages: 17

Job Number: S-3334

A Flash in the Dam

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; The Destroyer

First Line: I want everybody to be miserable and unhappy like me.

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Pages: 1

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]

First Line: It's true. No one appreciates Cary Bates. Everyone flatters O'Neil and Wein and Pasko.

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3346

Notes: Letters from Kenneth Williams, Tamsyn O'Flynn, Steve Thompson, Francis Hertzberg, and Tony Edwards.

Volume 80 Issue 12 - Week of March 24, 1980

In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous, superhero

Character(s): Superwoman; Superboy; Wonder Warrior; Bob Rozakis

First Line: Is the World Crazy?

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Pages: 0.8

Notes: Promo for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #349 with illustration from the cover (by Andru & Giordano). Promo for All-Out War (DC, 1979 series) #6. Direct Currents: On Sale Week of April 7th. Ask the Answer Man!: questions from Mike Elrod, Danny Staton, Aaron Eisenkrantz, Robert C. Grombach, Robert Sulcov, Jim Stribling, Jeff Ellis, and 2 unsigned.

[untitled]

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Character(s): Swamp Thing

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Pages: 0.2

Notes: Hembeck's strip with the Swamp Thing.