Action Comics #493 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Gaspar Saladino	Superman
1	The Metropolis-UFO Connection!	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Curt Swan; inks: Frank Chiaramonte; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Ben Oda	Clark Kent, Superman
3	-	letters page	1	script: E. Nelson Bridwell
4	Volume 78 Issue 51 - Week of December 25, 1978	in-house column	0.8	editing: Bob Rozakis
5	-	comic story	0.2	script: Fred Hembeck; pencils: Fred Hembeck; inks: Fred Hembeck

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

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.12 GBP

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