Action Comics #496 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

Identification plate

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Death out of a Bottle!	cover	1	pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Bob Oksner; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Superman
1	Death out of a Bottle	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Frank Chiaramonte; colors: Adrienne Roy; letters: Ben Oda	Zurnnunlaxi-Vraxil; Superman [Clark Kent]
3	-	letters page	1	script: E. Nelson Bridwell
4	Volume 76 [79] Issue 12 - Week of March 19, 1979	in-house column	0.8	letters: typeset
5	-	comic story	0.2	script: Fred Hembeck; pencils: Fred Hembeck; inks: Fred Hembeck	Two-Face

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Whitman	See the GCD record for identification notes.
British	price 0.12 GBP

Collection	Year
The Best of DC #5	1980	On eBay ›
Superman: Cover to Cover #[nn] ISBN 1-4012-0770-7; 978-1-4012-0770-0	2006	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
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