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Issue: Action Comics #538
Publication Date: December 1982
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Issues: #538 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/31/1982
Volume: 45
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.20 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 4 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from copyright registration.
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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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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Assets1
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen; Jackhammer
First Line: One more pounding from Jackhammer and you're dead! Get out!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3999
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The Measure of a Superman!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Superboy (flashback); Jonathan Kent (flashback); Jackhammer (villain)
Synopsis: Jimmy Olsen helps Superman recover from his beating at the hands of Jackhammer. Superman has to conquer his fears to go after Jackhammer again, but he does, and beats him, with a little help from the nice folks of Metropolis.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #25/1982 published December 1982
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: S-4009
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Mera, Mera, on the Wave-- Who's the One You've Got to Save?

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Mera
Synopsis: Aquaman manages to escape the trap created when the woman who he thinks is Mera goes out of control. But then he learns the truth - Mera is trapped, and this woman is someone else in Mera's body!
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: S-3992
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-4004
Disclose Notes: Letters from Jef Peckham, Martin B. Miller, Kent A. Phenis and Jill D. Weber.

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