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Issue: Action Comics #538

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Publication Date: December 1982

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Issues: #538 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 09/23/1982

Volume: 45

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893041012

Price: $0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #204.

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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

2 Action Comics #538 [Direct]

2 Action Comics #538 [Canadian]

Action Comics #538 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Jackhammer

First Line: One more pounding from Jackhammer and you're dead! Get out!

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3999

The Measure of a Superman!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Superboy (flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Jackhammer (villain)

Synopsis: Jimmy Olsen helps Superman recover from his beating at the hands of Jackhammer. Superman has to conquer his fears to go after Jackhammer again, but he does, and beats him, with a little help from the nice folks of Metropolis.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

Job Number: S-4009

Mera, Mera, on the Wave-- Who's the One You've Got to Save?

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Mera

Synopsis: Aquaman manages to escape the trap created when the woman who he thinks is Mera goes out of control. But then he learns the truth - Mera is trapped, and this woman is someone else in Mera's body!

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: S-3992

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: S-4004

Notes: Letters from Jef Peckham, Martin B. Miller, Kent A. Phenis and Jill D. Weber.