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Issue: Action Comics #559

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Publication Date: September 1984

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Issues: #559 of 866 Issues (1392 Printings)

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Variant: Canadian

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

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Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.

On Sale Date: 06/28/1984

Volume: none

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0709893041009

Price: $0.95 CAD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (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 #559 [Direct Sales]

Action Comics #559 [Canadian]

Action Comics #559 [Newsstand]

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Content Items (5 total)

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Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Yellow Peri

First Line: Watch out, Superman -- it's the Yellow Peri!

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Pages: 1

The Once-and-Future Peri(l)

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Alvin Grant; Yellow Peri [Loretta Grant]; Morgan Edge; Superman; Lana Lang; Lola Barnett; Jimmy Olsen

Synopsis: A magic book falls from the sky at the feet of Loretta Grant and she becomes the Yellow Peri. Her crooked husband tricks her into using the magic for shady schemes.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 16

Job Number: S-4931

Notes: Yellow Peri first met Superboy years earlier and he threw the book into outer space, which is where it is returning from in this issue.

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In-house Column on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Includes a "Spotlight On... Green Lantern" column.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Job Number: S-4450

Notes: Includes letters from Delmo Waters Jr., Rick Steel, Jef Peckham, Rod Wahowske and Stephen Scott Beau Smith.

A Superman of a Different Color!

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Superman; Jimmy Olsen

Synopsis: Clark Kent gets a normal haircut and thinks back to a recent space adventure that caused his hair to temporarily lose its invulnerability.

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Pages: 8

Job Number: S-4404