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Issue: Action Comics #498
Publication Date: August 1979
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Issues: #498 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: British
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 42
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041008
Price: £0.12 GBP
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; then standard Silver Age US; then standard Modern Age US
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Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
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Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lana Lang
First Line: There he is, Clark -- You can always count on Superman when disaster strikes in Metropolis!
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3160
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Catastrophic Man!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Vartox; Superman [Clark Kent]
Synopsis: Vartox sees his world destroyed. He comes to Earth and he and Superman deal with an alien drone ship. Vartox sets up shop on Earth and Superman helps him get a secret ID. In that identity, he falls for Lana Lang. Vartox even fills in for Superman. But then Vartox realizes that he has doomed Earth as well.
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Pages: 17
Job Number: S-3120
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3164
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Volume 79 Issue 22 - Week of May 21, 1979

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Genres: superhero
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Pages: 0.8
Job Number: P-322
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