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Issue: Action Comics #509

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Publication Date: July 1980

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Issues: #509 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)

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Variant: British

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 43

Pages: 68

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893041007

Price: £0.15 GBP

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
8 (2 stories, 1 cover) from base issue

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Format

Publication Type: Comic Book

Color: color

Dimensions: standard Golden Age US; standard Silver Age U.S.; standard Modern Age U.S.

Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior

Binding: saddle-stitched; squarebound (#334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449, 544, 600, 700)

Publishing Format: was ongoing series

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Action Comics #509 [unnamed variant]

Action Comics #509 [British]

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Content Items (8 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman

First Line: Superman! Why are you doing this to us?

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-3360

Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

The Great Space-Travel Hoax!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]

Synopsis: Superman battles a weird alien and saves a space probe. Clark Kent interviews skeptics who say space travel is impossible. Turns out, the two are connected, as the skeptics are actually aliens who forgot they are aliens.

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Pages: 17

Job Number: S-3353

A Flash in the Dam

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Genres: superhero

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Pages: 1

The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Shanna; Alec

First Line: This is Superman's last heroic act!

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Pages: 1

Notes: "Cover" for the advertising insert.

The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Shanna; Alec; Margaret Wilson; John Bardeen (Nobel scientist, cameo); William Schockley (Nobel scientist, cameo); Walter Brattain (Nobel scientist, cameo); Lana Lang

Synopsis: Alec and Shanna use a pair of TRS-80 computers to help Superman stop Major Disaster after Superman's powers become difficult for him to control.

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Pages: 28

Notes: advertising insert for Radio Shack

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Shanna; Alec

First Line: Our TRS-80 computer answers check!

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Pages: 1

Notes: "Back cover" of advertising insert.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Job Number: S-3366

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Notes: Includes a section titled "The Answer Man's 'What's It Worth' Department."