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Publishers / DC / Action Comics (1938) / #487

487September 1978
$0.50

Action Comics #487

DC · September 1978 · on sale June 27, 1978

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Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #487
Publication date: September 1978
Key date: September 1978
On-sale date: June 27, 1978
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $0.50
Pages: 44
Barcode: 0709893041009
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: José Luis García-López; inks: José Luis García-López; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Atom [Ray Palmer]
1	Super-Origin of Microwave Man!	comic story	15	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Francisco Chiaramonte; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Milt Snapinn	Microwave Man; Superman [Clark Kent]
2	Onward and Upward	in-house column	1	script: Jenette Kahn
3	-	letters page	1	script: E. Nelson Bridwell
4	Miniature War of the Bat-Knights!	comic story	10	script: Bob Rozakis; pencils: Alex Saviuk; inks: Francisco Chiaramonte; colors: Jerry Serpe; letters: Milt Snapinn	The Bat-Knights; Atom [Ray Palmer]; Jean Loring
5	-	in-house column	0.6	script: Bob Rozakis
6	39 Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez	in-house column	0.4	script: Mike Catron	Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Whitman	price [none]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Superman: Cover to Cover #[nn] ISBN 1-4012-0770-7; 978-1-4012-0770-0	2006	On eBay ›
Adventures of Superman: José Luis García-López #2 ISBN 978-1-77950-102-8	2020	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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