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ACTION COMICS #518
Cover Date: April 1981
Cover Price: $.50
Publication Date: 1981-01-22
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Ross Andru (signed)
Inks: Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors: Tatjana Wood
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Credits:
| Story | Gerry Conway |
| Pencils | Curt Swan |
| Inks | Frank Chiaramonte |
| Lettering | Todd Klein |
| Colors | Gene D'Angelo |
| Consulting editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
- Superman (last in Superman Vol. 1 #358; next in World's Finest Comics #268)
Supporting Character(s):
- Jimmy Olsen (next in World's Finest Comics #268)
- Steve Lombard (in between issues #517 and #519)
Villain(s):
- Karmault (first appearance; an alien; brother of Farlung)
Other Character(s):
- Farlung (first appearance; an alien; brother of Karmault)
- Mike Murphy (first appearance; watchtower guard at Carruthers Gap Dam)
- Professor Hodgkins (first appearance; a nuclear physicist)
- two workers on a solar collector in the Mojave Desert (first appearance of both; Dave named)
Location(s):
- Space Sector 2814
- Earth
- Carruthers Gap
- Metropolis
- Mojave Desert
- Earth
- Unidentified Space Sector
- an unidentified planet (in flashback; homeworld of Farlung and Karmault)
Comment(s):
- A member of Farlung and Karmault's unidentified alien race appears on Kneel Before Zod #5.
Credits:
| Story | J.M. DeMatteis |
| Art | Don Heck |
| Lettering | Ben Oda |
| Colors | Jerry Serpe |
| Assistant editing | E. Nelson Bridwell |
| Editing | Julius Schwartz |
Feature Character(s):
Supporting Character(s):
Villain(s):
- Amphitrite
- Ocean Master (in between issues #517/2 and #519/2)
- Poseidon (last in ???; next in issue #519/2)
Other Character(s):
- Inspector Erwin of the NYPD (first appearance)
- NYPD officers
- a Scavenger robot
Location(s):
- Atlantis
- New Venice
- New York, NY
Comment(s):
- Story continued from the previous issue.and continues in the next issue.