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Issue: Action Comics #508
Publication Date: June 1980
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Issues: #508 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: 03/25/1980
Volume: 43
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041006
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 #177.
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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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Disclose Reprinted In5
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Original Artwork
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Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Jonathan Kent; Lois Lane
First Line: Thunderation! Who could have done that to you -- my son?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman Taschenbuch #28 published January 1980
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3341
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Secret World of Jonathan Kent!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Pa Kent [Jonathan Kent]; Starshine; Lois Lane; April Marygold; May Marygold; Lana Lang (television); Perry White; Morgan Edge; Steve Lombard; two unnamed aliens
First Line: Jonathan Kent, kindly foster-father to Clark (Superboy) Kent, tragically died many years ago...
Synopsis: Superman battles Starshine and his powers of suggestion. Then we learn the secret of Jonathan Kent's return to life.
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In Content Item: FlagSuperman Taschenbuch #28 published January 1980
as Die geheime Welt des Jonathan Kent [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagThe Best of DC #11 [Direct Sales] published April 1981
as The Secret World of Jonathan Kent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman from the Thirties to the Eighties #[nn] published January 1983
as The Secret World of Jonathan Kent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSuperman in the Eighties #[nn] published June 2006
as The Secret World of Jonathan Kent! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: S-3334
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A Flash in the Dam

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Flash [Barry Allen]; The Destroyer
First Line: I want everybody to be miserable and unhappy like me.
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]
First Line: It's true. No one appreciates Cary Bates. Everyone flatters O'Neil and Wein and Pasko.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3346
Disclose Notes: Letters from Kenneth Williams, Tamsyn O'Flynn, Steve Thompson, Francis Hertzberg, and Tony Edwards.
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Volume 80 Issue 12 - Week of March 24, 1980

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, superhero
Character(s): Superwoman; Superboy; Wonder Warrior; Bob Rozakis
First Line: Is the World Crazy?
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.8
Disclose Notes: Promo for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #349 with illustration from the cover (by Andru & Giordano). Promo for All-Out War (DC, 1979 series) #6. Direct Currents: On Sale Week of April 7th. Ask the Answer Man!: questions from Mike Elrod, Danny Staton, Aaron Eisenkrantz, Robert C. Grombach, Robert Sulcov, Jim Stribling, Jeff Ellis, and 2 unsigned.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Swamp Thing
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.2
Disclose Notes: Hembeck's strip with the Swamp Thing.

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