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Publishers / DC / Action Comics (1938) / #501

501November 1979
$0.40

Action Comics #501

DC · November 1979 · on sale August 21, 1979

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Identification plate

Series: Action Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #501
Publication date: November 1979
Key date: November 1979
On-sale date: August 21, 1979
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $0.40
Pages: 36
Barcode: 0709893041011
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Contents

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Dick Giordano; colors: Tatjana Wood; letters: Milt Snapinn	Clark Kent, Superman
1	The Mystery of the Mild-Mannered Superman	comic story	17	script: Cary Bates; pencils: Kurt Schaffenberger; inks: Joe Giella; colors: Gene D'Angelo; letters: Milt Snapinn	Clark Kent, Superman
3	-	letters page	1	script: E. Nelson Bridwell
4	-	in-house column	0.6	script: Bob Rozakis
5	Number 51 Joe Staton	in-house column	0.4	script: Mike Catron

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

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Whitman	barcode 3041011
British	price 0.15 GBP

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Series context

‹ #500501 of 866#502 ›

Sources

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

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