XOWComics.com

Issue: Action Comics #539

- Attribution History

Publication Date: January 1983

Issue #539
- Action Comics Weekly
- #529
- #530
- #531
- #532
- #533
- #534
- #535
- #536
- #537
- #538
- ✓ #539
- #540
- #541
- #542
- #543
- #544
- #545
- #546
- #547
- #548
- #549
- more...
- Show Variants
- Action Comics Weekly

Detail

Issues: #539 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Brand: DC [bullet]

Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 10/28/1982

Volume: 46

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 709893041001

Price: $0.60 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s):

Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #205.

Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.

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

Format Notes:

Variants3

Action Comics #539 [Direct Sales]

Action Comics #539 [CA Cover Price]

Action Comics #539 [Newsstand]

Reprinted In0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted anywhere.

Reprinted From0

There is currently no data for this Issue being reprinted from anywhere.

Images1

- View Linked Content Item
- View Cover Detail

Cover, Front

Original Artwork

Digital Edition

Adult Image

Title Page

Indicia on this Page

Assets0

Content Items (4 total)

[untitled]

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Job Number: S-4018

Notes: Art credits and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Past Imperfect!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lana Lang; Perry White; The Atom [Ray Palmer]; The Flash [Barry Allen]; Syrene (villain); Lord Satanis (villain)

Synopsis: The Atom uses the Time Pool to try to help Superman get to the past to stop Lord Satanis and Syrene. Flash does the same with the Cosmic Treadmill, but both efforts fail. Back in the past, the other Superman is still a pawn in the war between Satanis and Syrene. Clark Kent shows up at the Daily Planet, and promptly keels over. Clark Kent is dead! Meanwhile, Satanis manages to take over the body of the Superman in the past. And Clark Kent's autopsy begins.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

Job Number: S-4031

Notes: Art credits, page count and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Story continues from Action Comics #538; story continues in Action Comics #541.

Help! I'm a Prisoner in My Own Body!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Aquaman [Arthur Curry]; Mera; V'Lana (villain)

Synopsis: Aquaman learns that V'Lana has taken over Mera's body and plans to use Mera's ability to control fish to take over Mera's home dimension of Xebel. Aquaman and Mera confront her, but she gets the upper hand, and Mera's life is in danger.

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Job Number: S-4029

Notes: Page count and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

[untitled]

Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Reprinting

Reprint Notes:

Miscellaneous

Pages: 2

Job Number: S-4023

Notes: Page count and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.