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Action Comics , #508

Published: June 1980

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Story Featuring Superman

"Thunderation! Who could have done that to you -- my son?"

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Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

The Secret World of Jonathan Kent!

Story Featuring Superman

"Jonathan Kent, kindly foster-father to Clark (Superboy) Kent, tragically died many years ago..."

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Superman battles Starshine and his powers of suggestion. Then we learn the secret of Jonathan Kent's return to life.

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Letter Column Featuring Superman in Action

"It's true. No one appreciates Cary Bates. Everyone flatters O'Neil and Wein and Pasko."

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Letters from Kenneth Williams, Tamsyn O'Flynn, Steve Thompson, Francis Hertzberg, and Tony Edwards.

Volume 80 Issue 12 - Week of March 24, 1980

In-House Column Featuring Daily Planet , In-House Column Featuring Direct Currents , In-House Column Featuring The Answer Man

"Is the World Crazy?"

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Promo for Superman (DC, 1939 series) #349 with illustration from the cover (by Andru & Giordano). Promo for All-Out War (DC, 1979 series) #6. Direct Currents: On Sale Week of April 7th. Ask the Answer Man!: questions from Mike Elrod, Danny Staton, Aaron Eisenkrantz, Robert C. Grombach, Robert Sulcov, Jim Stribling, Jeff Ellis, and 2 unsigned.

A Flash in the Dam

Story Featuring The Flash , Ad Featuring Hostess Twinkies

"I want everybody to be miserable and unhappy like me."

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Story Featuring Hembeck

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Hembeck's strip with the Swamp Thing.