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Issue: Action Comics #515

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Publication Date: January 1981

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Issues: #515 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 44

Pages: 40

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: none

Price: £0.15 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (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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2 Action Comics #515 [Direct]

Action Comics #515 [British]

Action Comics #515 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (5 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Vandal Savage; The Atom [Ray Palmer] (inset)

First Line: Smash the rebels, Superman --

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3496

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

This Is My World, and You're Welcome to It!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lana Lang; Jimmy Olsen; Lex Luthor (villain); Vandal Savage (villain, brief origin); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Martha Kent (flashback)

Synopsis: We open to a world ruled by Vandal Savage, where Superman is his enforcer and Jimmy Olsen is a rebel. Jimmy is captured, but luckily Lois Lane is secretly on the side of the rebels too! Lois is able to show Superman the evil of Vandal Savage, but she is killed in the process, and Vandal Savage disappears into the past.

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Pages: 17

Job Number: S-3489

The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Flash; Bureauc-Rat

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Pages: 1

Sorry-- Wrong Powers!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): The Atom [Ray Palmer]; Professor Hyatt; Mallo, Keeper of the Cosmic Balance; The Flash [Jay Garrick] (flashback); The Flash [Barry Allen] (flashback); Green Lantern [Alan Scott] (flashback); Green Lantern [Hal Jordan] (flashback); Superman [Kal-L] (flashback); Superman [Kal-El] (flashback); Hawkman [Carter Hall] (flashback); Hawkman [Katar Hol] (flashback); The Atom [Al Pratt] (flashback); kidnappers (villains)

Synopsis: The Atom is on the trail of kidnappers. But a cosmic being switches the powers of the Earth One and Earth Two Atoms, causing Ray Palmer to be stuck at 5 foot tall with super-strength. The Atom is able to use his counterpart's powers to save Professor Hyatt, just in time for the powers to switch back again.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: S-3488

Notes: Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3502