Action Comics, #597 Direct
Published: February 1988
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"I guarantee that this scene does not appear in this issue!"
Characters
- Clark Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Lois Lane (mainstream Universe)
- Lana Lang (mainstream Universe)
- Superman (mainstream Universe)
Credits
- Pencils: John Byrne
- Letters: Todd Klein
- Script: John Byrne
- Inks: John Byrne
Chocolate Fun for Everyone!
Story Notes
Inside front cover.
Visitor
"So this is Kent's home town..."
Storyline
With Superman in a follow-up to Millennium, Lois Lane meets Lana Lang in Smallville. Ma and Pa Kent tell Lois that they raised both Clark and Superman.
Characters
- Barry Allen (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Batman (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Jose Delgado (mainstream Universe)
- The Flash (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Green Lantern (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Hawkman (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Katar Hol (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- J'Onn J'Onzz (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Hal Jordan (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Clark Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Jonathan Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Martha Kent (mainstream Universe)
- Ella Lane (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- General Sam Lane (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Lois Lane (mainstream Universe)
- Lucy Lane (mainstream Universe)
- Lana Lang (mainstream Universe)
- Martian Manhunter (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Superman (mainstream Universe)
- Bruce Wayne (mainstream Universe) [Flashback]
- Peg
Credits
- Script: John Byrne
- Pencils: John Byrne
- Inks: Leonard Starr
- Inks: Keith Williams
- Colors: Tom Ziuko
- Letters: John Costanza
Body Builder
"Mabye it's a truck body. Maybe a racing car body. But whatever model you're building, you want it to look the best."
Story Notes
Between story pages 4 and 5.
Brings out the Hero in You!
"Now you can bring home your favorite smash arcade hits for play on the Nintendo Entertainment System..."
Story Notes
Between story pages 4 and 5.
Don't Just Stand There. Fire Back!
"Lord Dread is threatening the future of the human race! Captain Power battles him every week on TV and he needs your help."
Story Notes
Between story pages 8 and 9.
"For a price, they'll solve anything... if they like you."
Credits
- Pencils: José Luis García-López
- Inks: José Luis García-López
Story Notes
Between story pages 8 and 9.
Blast-off!
"With Zanac and Lunar Pool"
Story Notes
Between story pages 16 and 17.
Great New Gifts for the Holiday Season
Featuring Give them to yourself too!!
Story Notes
Between story pages 16 and 17. Promo the Superman and Batman collections: The Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told (DC, 1987 series) hardcover, The Man of Steel (DC, 1987 series) trade paperback and Batman: Son of the Demon (DC, 1987 series) trade paperback.
Write Right Now!
Story Notes
Between story pages 20 and 21. Above the Spiral Zone promo. Fifteen ads for various products.
"In the Spiral Zone, no one thinks about leaving. No one thinks, period."
Story Notes
Between story pages 20 and 21. Below the Write Right Now! ads.
Space... the Final Frontier
"It's a new Enterprise... with a new crew... but the thirst for adventure remains!"
Story Notes
Between story pages 20 and 21.
"Dear John & Michael: Action #592 was fantastic."
Credits
- Script: Mike Carlin
Story Notes
Letters from: Erich Mees, Jeff Mitchell, Dana E. Johnson, Ben Milton, Occie J. Gillis, Jr., Rob Rausch, David Metz, Jacob Gilbert and Don Lambert, Jr.; responses from Mike Carlin.
"What happens every time you bite into a Striped Chips Ahoy!?"
Story Notes
Inside back cover.
One Giant Step for Dragonkind
"The future is here for millionsof AD&D game players."
Story Notes
Back cover.