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Issue: Action Comics #539
Publication Date: January 1983
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Issues: #539 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
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
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Disclose Notes: On-sale date from The Comic Reader #205.
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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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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-4018
Disclose Notes: Art credits and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Past Imperfect!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 16
Job Number: S-4031
Disclose 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.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: S-4023
Disclose Notes: Page count and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
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Help! I'm a Prisoner in My Own Body!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
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.
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Pages: 7
Job Number: S-4029
Disclose Notes: Page count and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

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