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Issue: Action Comics #492

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Publication Date: February 1979

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Issues: #492 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)

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Variant: Whitman

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: Whitman TV Comic

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 42

Pages: 36

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UPC/EAN: none

Price: $0.40 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
6 (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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Action Comics #492 [Standard Cover]

Action Comics #492 [British]

Action Comics #492 [Whitman]

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman

First Line: Great Krypton! My wife and children -- dying!

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3051

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

Superman's Secret Afterlife!

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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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Pages: 17

Job Number: S-3045

Penguins on Parade

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3055

Notes: Letters from Tony Edwards, Anthony J. Pignataro, Beppe Sabatini. Also Second Great Superman Movie Contest Question Twenty-Four.

Volume 78 Issue 47 - Week of November 26, 1978

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Genres: humorous

Character(s): Cynthia; Mildred; Destiny

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Pages: 0.8

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