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Action Comics 509

ACTION COMICS #509

Cover Date: July 1980
Cover Price: $.40
Publication Date: 1980-04-22

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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Ross Andru (signed)
Inks: Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors: Tatjana Wood


Story: "The Great Space-Travel Hoax!" (17 Pages)

Credits:

StoryCary Bates
PencilsCurt Swan
InksFrank Chiaramonte
LetteringJohn Costanza
ColorsGene D'Angelo
Associate editingE. Nelson Bridwell
EditingJulius Schwartz

Feature Character(s):

Superman (last in Justice League of America #180; next in Superman Family #202/3)

Supporting Character(s):

Jimmy Olsen (last in DC Comics Presents #23; next in Superman Family #202/5)
Josh Coyle (last in issue #507; next in Superman Vol. 1 #352)
Lana Lang (last in issue #508; next in Superman Vol. 1 #350)
Perry White (last in issue #508; next in Superman Family #202/4)

Villain(s):

the psychic "enforcer"' (first appearance; a being of mental energy formed by the unconscious minds of the "Skepticons;" destroyed)

Other Character(s):

Society of Space Skeptics (first appearance; five aliens "bio-transmuted" to appear as humans; also in flashback to fifty years prior; Gustav J. Arno and Emery named; referred to as "Skepticons" by Superman)
WGBS staff

Location(s):

Brambleville (first appearance; 20 miles southwest of Metropolis, population 25,000)
Metropolis
WGBS Building
Daily Planet


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Second Story (reprint): "The Computers That Saved Metropolis!" (28 Pages)

Credits (new material only):

Reprint Comment(s):

Story reprinted from Superman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" (July 1980)

Comment(s):

This insert between pages 10 and 11 of the first story is an advertisement for Radio Shack computers.


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