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Cover: Ross Andru & Dick Giordano
Action Comics #509
“The Great Space-Travel Hoax!”
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.
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writer Cary Bates · artist Curt Swan · inker Frank Chiaramonte · colorist Gene D'Angelo · letterer John Costanza · cover Ross AndruDick Giordano
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Full credits
writer Cary Bates
artist Curt Swan
inker Frank Chiaramonte
colorist Gene D'Angelo
letterer John Costanza
cover pencils Ross Andru
cover inks Dick Giordano
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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.
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