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Action Comics, #509

Published: July 1980

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Action Comics #509

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Issue Contents:
1 page superhero

"Superman! Why are you doing this to us?"

Characters
  • Superman
Credits
Story Notes

Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.

The Great Space-Travel Hoax!
Story 1 17 pages superhero
Storyline

Superman battles a weird alien and saves a space probe. Clark Kent interviews skeptics who say space travel is impossible. Turns out, the two are connected, as the skeptics are actually aliens who forgot they are aliens.

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
Credits
A Flash in the Dam
Story 2 1 page superhero
Credits
The Computers That Saved Metropolis!
Story 3 1 page superhero

"This is Superman's last heroic act!"

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent]
  • Major Disaster [Paul Booker]
  • Shanna
  • Alec
Credits
Story Notes

"Cover" for the advertising insert.

The Computers That Saved Metropolis!
Story 4 28 pages superhero
Storyline

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.

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
Credits
Story Notes

advertising insert for Radio Shack

Story 5 1 page superhero

"Our TRS-80 computer answers check!"

Characters
  • Superman [Clark Kent
  • Kal-El]
  • Shanna
  • Alec
Credits
Story Notes

"Back cover" of advertising insert.

Story 6 1 page
Credits
Story 7 1 page
Credits
Story Notes

Includes a section titled "The Answer Man's 'What's It Worth' Department."