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Issue: Action Comics #492
Publication Date: February 1979
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Issues: #492 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Standard Cover
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 11/21/1978
Volume: 42
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041002
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #162.
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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
Paper Stock:  
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
First Line: Great Krypton! My wife and children -- dying!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #15/1979 published July 1979
as kein Titel [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3051
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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Superman's Secret Afterlife!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Lana Lang; Phantom Zone inhabitants [Jax-Ur; General Zod; Faora Hu-Ul]
Synopsis: Superman returns from a mission in space to learn Lois and Lana have been threatened. He saves Lana, but Lois mysteriously dies. The next morning, Superman wakes to find that it is 1988 and he is married to Lana. This future has all sorts of appeals to it. He then wakes up further in the future, when he has children. But then Lana and the kids all die. It all turns out to be a plot by the Phantom Zone villains to get Superman to kill himself, but he overcomes their illusions.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #15/1979 published July 1979
as Supermans düstere Zukunft [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #3/1981 published January 1980
as Supermanns hemmelige liv etter døden [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: S-3045
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Penguins on Parade

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3055
Disclose Notes: Letters from Tony Edwards, Anthony J. Pignataro, Beppe Sabatini. Also Second Great Superman Movie Contest Question Twenty-Four.
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Volume 78 Issue 47 - Week of November 26, 1978

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Character(s): Cynthia; Mildred; Destiny
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2

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