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Issue: Action Comics #509
Publication Date: July 1980
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Issues: #509 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 04/22/1980
Volume: 43
Pages: 68
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0709893041007
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (2 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Comic Reader #178.
Contains a 32-page Radio Shack insert.
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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
Format Notes:  
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman
First Line: Superman! Why are you doing this to us?
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagSuperman #18/1980 published September 1980
as Ausserirdische in Metropolis [Illustration on Cover, Front]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3360
Disclose Notes: Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
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The Great Space-Travel Hoax!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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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In Content Item: FlagSuperman #18/1980 published September 1980
as Der grosse Raumfahrschwindel [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
Job Number: S-3353
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A Flash in the Dam

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
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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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Cover" for the advertising insert.
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The Computers That Saved Metropolis!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
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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From Content Item: FlagSuperman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" #[nn] [unnamed variant] published July 1980
was The Computers That Saved Metropolis! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 28
Disclose Notes: advertising insert for Radio Shack
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Shanna; Alec
First Line: Our TRS-80 computer answers check!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Back cover" of advertising insert.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-3366
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes a section titled "The Answer Man's 'What's It Worth' Department."

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