ACTION COMICS (1938-2011) #473
CGC NM+: 9.6
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Swan/Adams cover + General Zod (7/77)Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Neal Adams. "The Great Phantom Peril," script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Tex Blaisdell; The people of Earth exchange places with the prisoners of the Phantom Zone, who run rampant over the planet; But Superman engineers another switch which returns the Kryptonian criminals, including their ringleader Faora Hu-Ul, to the Zone and restores Earth's people to their own planet.
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.
Swan/Adams cover + General Zod (7/77)Cover pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Neal Adams. "The Great Phantom Peril," script by Cary Bates, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Tex Blaisdell; The people of Earth exchange places with the prisoners of the Phantom Zone, who run rampant over the planet; But Superman engineers another switch which returns the Kryptonian criminals, including their ringleader Faora Hu-Ul, to the Zone and restores Earth's people to their own planet.
Artist Information
Swan was a house artist at DC working on titles like Tommy Tomorrow, he began gravitating towards Superman and his related books, Superboy, World's Finest and Jimmy Olsen, he would eventually leave DC thanks to his personality issue with Editor In Chief Mort Weisinger. He would eventually return and go on to be the artist that defined the look of Superman in the Silver Age, eventually becoming the editor of the title, but after thirty years of keeping up standards of all things Superman, Swan was given the boot in favor of John Byrne's Superman reboot, Swan's comic work began to taper off after this dismissal and he eventually retired, but will forever be recognized as the Silver Age Superman's finest artist.