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Issue Details

Issue #509
Published July 1980
Cover Price 0.40
Pages 36
Editing Julius Schwartz

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Ross Andru (signed)
Inks Dick Giordano (signed)

17 page Superman story "The Great Space-Travel Hoax"

Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Curt Swan
Inks Frank Chiaramonte
Colors Gene D'Angelo
Letters John Costanza

28 page Superman insert or dust jacket "The Computers That Saved Metropolis!"

Characters Superman [Clark Kent]; Major Disaster [Paul Booker]; Shanna; Alec; Margaret Wilson; John Bardeen (Nobel Scientist, Cameo); William Schockley (Nobel Scientist, Cameo); Walter Brattain (Nobel Scientist, Cameo); Lana Lang
Synopsis Alec and Shanna use a pair of TRS-80 computers to help Superman stop Major Disaster after Superman's powers become difficult for him to control.
Genre superhero
Script Cary Bates
Pencils Jim Starlin
Inks Dick Giordano
Notes advertising insert for Radio Shack, "The Computers that Saved Metropolis
Reprinted From Superman in "The Computers That Saved Metropolis" (DC 1980 series) #nn

1 page Superman in Action letters page "Superman In Action"

Letters typeset