Superman
#659
[Direct Sales]
(February 2007)
DC,
2006 Series
- Price
- 2.99 USD; 4.00 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 2007-02-21
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [swirl]
- Barcode
- 761941200033 65911
- Printer
- Printed in Canada
- Editing
- Matt Idelson (credited) (editor); Nachie Castro (credited) (associate editor); Dan DiDio (credited) (executive editor); Paul Levitz (credited) (publisher)
Issue Notes
This issue went on sale two months late from the original shipping date of 659, one month late from when the actual content was to ship. This issue was originally supposed to contain a Krypto story, but Kurt Busiek announced first on the DC Message Boards on 2007-01-25 and later on the Newsarama Message Boards on 2007-02-11 that that (completed) issue was pulled at the last minute at the executive level to be rescheduled later, so this issue contains what was solicited for #660. This was confirmed by DC via a press release on the day the issue shipped, 2007-02-21.
Here's the solicitation text for the to-be-rescheduled issue: "Ever since the death of Superboy during the Infinite Crisis, fans have wondered what became of Krypto, and what those events meant for him. Now, writer Kurt Busiek is joined by sensational guest penciler Rick Leonardi (SUPERMAN RETURNS: LEX LUTHOR, BATGIRL, NIGHTWING) to tell a surprisingly touching tale of the Dog of Steel's most tragic days, laying the groundwork for Krypto's surprising future." (The solicited inks for this story were to be by Jesus Merino.)
The solicited issue (cover and story) was finally rescheduled more than four years later, and appeared as Superman (DC, 2006 series) #712 (August, 2011).
This issue has variants:
Here's the solicitation text for the to-be-rescheduled issue: "Ever since the death of Superboy during the Infinite Crisis, fans have wondered what became of Krypto, and what those events meant for him. Now, writer Kurt Busiek is joined by sensational guest penciler Rick Leonardi (SUPERMAN RETURNS: LEX LUTHOR, BATGIRL, NIGHTWING) to tell a surprisingly touching tale of the Dog of Steel's most tragic days, laying the groundwork for Krypto's surprising future." (The solicited inks for this story were to be by Jesus Merino.)
The solicited issue (cover and story) was finally rescheduled more than four years later, and appeared as Superman (DC, 2006 series) #712 (August, 2011).
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Al Barrionuevo (signed as BARRIONUEVO)
- Inks
- Al Barrionuevo (signed as BARRIONUEVO)
- Colors
- Marta Martinez (signed)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]
- Reprints
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in Superman: Redemption (DC, 2008 series) ([March] 2008), ([March] 2008) - in Superman: Camelot Falls - The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2023 series) ([August] 2023)
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![Cover Thumbnail for Superman (DC, 2006 series) #659 [Direct Sales]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/318/w200/318609.jpg?3506810352944384211)
Angel
Superman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Kurt Busiek (credited) (co-plot, script); Fabian Nicieza (credited) (co-plot, pp. 2-21)
- Pencils
- Carlos Pacheco (credited) (pages 1 and 22); Peter Vale (credited) (pages 2-21)
- Inks
- Jesús Merino (credited)
- Colors
- Bruno Hang (credited)
- Letters
- Richard Starkings (credited)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Arion [Ahri'ahn] (cameo); Lois Lane (flashback); Superman [Clark Kent]; Perry White (flashback); Subjekt 17 (cameo); Barbara Johnson (intro, flashback); Challengers of the Unknown (photo); Aquaman (photo); Clockworks (flashback); Bay Lords gang (flashback); Michael Leon Polk (flashback); Bret Bradley (flashback)
- Synopsis
- Superman reviews when he saved Barbara Johnson from a drunk driver. She calls on the Lord to save her and Superman does. She thinks he's an angel. She has other experiences where Superman saves the day. She boldly confronts the local gang, goading the leader into shooting at her. She expects Superman, but he is busy saving someone else. He visits Barbara in a hospital. She says her shooting outraged the neighborhood and people are now cleaning out the gang. Back in the present, he thinks of the good she has done since then and doubts Arion's message that he is influencing mankind in a bad way.
- Reprints
- in Superman: Redemption (DC, 2008 series) ([March] 2008)
- in Superman: Camelot Falls - The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2023 series) ([August] 2023)
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- Gregory Fischer
- Bob Hughes
- Donald Dale Milne
- Martin Olsen
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