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Issue: Action Comics #493
Publication Date: March 1979
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Issues: #493 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/26/1978
Volume: 42
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041003
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 #163.
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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: So long, Superman-- I'm turning you off-- for good!
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #19/1979 published September 1979
as kein Titel [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3077
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Metropolis-UFO Connection!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Lyle Corliss (villain); Superman [Clark Kent]; Jimmy Olsen
Synopsis: Superman battles an alien that tries to trap him in a TV-like device, but Superman is wearing Jimmy Olsen's signal-watch and that enables him to escape and prevent the alien invasion. Meanwhile, Clark Kent goes back to work for the Daily Planet temporarily.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #19/1979 published September 1979
as Metropolis im Bann der Ufos [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSupermann #4/1981 published January 1981
as UFO'ene over Metropolis [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: S-3061
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The Intergalactic Gold Eaters

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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[untitled]

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-3083
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Volume 78 Issue 51 - Week of December 25, 1978

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.8
Job Number: P-251
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Letterer(s): ?
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2

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