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Issue: Action Comics #549
Publication Date: November 1983
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Issues: #549 of 866 Issues (1410 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagDC
Brand: DC [bullet]View Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: DC Comics Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/02/1983
Volume: 46
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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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
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman; Zod; Faora
First Line: The murderous Vrangs -- in a battle to the death with the Phantom Zone villains!
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Job Number: S-4223
Disclose Notes: Art credits and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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Superman Meets the Zod Squad!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Lana Lang; Phantom Zone inhabitants [General Zod; Faora Hu-Ul; Tyb-Ol (death); Murkk (death); Jax-Ur; six unnamed prisoners]; Wildcats; Sonny Chilwa; Vrangs; Val-Lor (flashback)
Synopsis: Lois confronts Faora Hu-ul. The other Phantom Zone villains reveal themselves. Turns out the Phantom Zoners freed themselves so that they could help stop the Vrangs who arrived on Earth and attack. The Zoners help Superman, but then try to kill him. Superman manages to get the Phantom Zoners back in the Zone and escape it himself.
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From Content Item: FlagSuperman Album #3 published January 1982
was Die Gangster aus der Phantomzone! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 23
Job Number: S-5066
Disclose Notes: Job number and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

The first page was added in order to split the original story into two parts.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 2
Job Number: S-4228
Disclose Notes: Job number and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

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