Cover: José Luis García-López

Action Comics #495

May 1979 · DC · 0.40 USD

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“Attack of the Ultimate Warrior!”

Right in Superman's hometown of Smallville, the Man of Steel faces off against a powerfully built, purple-clad warrior from Krypton's past — while a startled Clark Kent figure wreathed in flames reacts in the background. The banner headline warns that this foe is "mightier than Superman," and the cover copy promises that a death-duel begun on another world when Clark Kent was Superboy reaches its blazing conclusion here on Earth. José Luis García-López's cover art brings real kinetic energy to the confrontation, making Action Comics #495 a vivid snapshot of late-'70s Superman storytelling at its most dramatic.

writer Cary Bates · artist Curt Swan · inker Frank Chiaramonte · colorist Gene D'Angelo · letterer Ben Oda · cover José Luis García-López

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Full credits

writer Cary Bates

artist Curt Swan

inker Frank Chiaramonte

colorist Gene D'Angelo

letterer Ben Oda

cover pencils, inks José Luis García-López

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Superman learns that the ghostly presences he has been investigating in Smallville are a menace he had defeated as Superboy that came to Earth. Superman deals with the menace.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).