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Action Comics #498 (1979) · The Collector

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Action Comics (1938)
#498

DC Comics#498

Action Comics

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Action Comics #498

The Catastrophic Man!

Publisher: DC Comics
Cover date: August 1979
On sale: May 22, 1979
Cover price: $0.40
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Printing not stated · Newsstand · $0.40

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Grand Comics Database issue 33565

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Vartox sees his world destroyed. He comes to Earth and he and Superman deal with an alien drone ship. Vartox sets up shop on Earth and Superman helps him get a secret ID. In that identity, he falls for Lana Lang. Vartox even fills in for Superman. But then Vartox realizes that he has doomed Earth as well.

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Printing not stated · Newsstand · GB market · £0.12

Whitman

Printing not stated · $0.40

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Credits

Writers: Cary Bates, Fred Hembeck
Pencillers: Curt Swan, Fred Hembeck
Inkers: Frank Chiaramonte, Fred Hembeck
Colorist: Gene D'Angelo
Letterer: Ben Oda
Covers: Ross Andru, Dick Giordano
Cover colors: Tatjana Wood
Editor: Julius Schwartz
Associate editor: E. Nelson Bridwell
Cover letters: Gaspar Saladino
Managing editor: Joe Orlando

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Clark Kent
Superman

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