Firestorm
#3
(June 1978)
DC,
1978 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.35 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly (with the exception of May, July, Sept., Nov., and Jan.)
- On-sale Date
- 1978-03-07
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893114206
- Editing
- Jack C. Harris (credited) (editor); Joe Orlando (credited) (managing editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #154.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Kiss Not the Lips of Killer Frost!
Firestorm / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Al Milgrom (signed as
Milgrom) - Inks
- Al Milgrom (signed as Milgrom)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-713
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Heed the warning of the frozen dead--
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Professor Martin Stein]; Killer Frost [Crystal Frost]
- Reprints
-
in Firestorm: The Nuclear Man (DC, 2011 series) ([October] 2011)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for Firestorm (1978 series) #3 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1065/w100/1065624.jpg?6105708212669121041)
Kiss Not the Lips of Killer Frost
Firestorm / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- Gerry Conway (credited)
- Pencils
- Al Milgrom (credited)
- Inks
- Bob McLeod (credited)
- Colors
- Mario Sen (credited)
- Letters
- Ben Oda (credited)
- Job Number
- J-5239
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Ronald, this is outrageous! You may indeed be late for school, but I'm overdue at a military airbase!
- Feature Logo
Firestorm [block letters]- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Professor Martin Stein]; Killer Frost [Dr. Crystal Frost] (intro, villain); Cliff Carmichael; Doreen Day; General Casper; Project Director Loew; Dr. French; Professor Clair; Hamilton (classmate of Ronnie Raymond); Principal Wallace Hapgood (introduction)
- Synopsis
- Professor Stein is sent by the military to help with a project at Mohole One, a secret scientific base trying to harness the heat from the center of the Earth. When Dr. Crystal Frost is trapped in a super-refrigeration chamber she becomes Killer Frost.
- Reprints
-
in Faucon Noir (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #12 (mars 1979) [N&B [B&W]] - in Firestorm: The Nuclear Man (DC, 2011 series) ([October] 2011)
-
- Keywords
- Arctic; Bradley High School; Manhattan; Mohole 1 Research Station; New York City; Thermafrost Freezer
Indexer Notes
This is the Crystal Frost who is killed in Fury of Firestorm #21. Louise Lincoln becomes the second Killer Frost in Fury of Firestorm #33.
[no title indexed]
Nuclear Reactions / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Jack C. Harris ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-934
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What is it that makes a story (comic book or otherwise) entertaining?
- Feature Logo
Nuclear Reactions- Synopsis
- No letters but information on the creation of the Firestorm character and also how the concept of Killer Frost came about.
Indexer Notes
Editorial; no letters.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Kiss Not the Lips of Killer Frost!
Firestorm -
1.
Kiss Not the Lips of Killer Frost
Firestorm -
2.
Imperiled Sub
Aquaman; Hostess Twinkies -
3.
["What is it that makes a story (comic book or otherwise) entertaining?"]
Nuclear Reactions -
4.
Hawkman Spreads His Wings
DC Publishorial
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Gregory Fischer
- Matthew Head
- Lou Mazzella
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Derek Reinhard
- Jim Stangas
- Daniel Thingvold
- Jim Van Dore
- Bjorn Wallin
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