(December 1979)
DC,
1978 Series
- Volume
- 2
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-09-11
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893121612
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (associate editor)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Comic Reader #172.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
Black Lightning; Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Ross Andru (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- Tatjana Wood
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- S-3223
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman; Black Lightning
- Reprints
-
in Superman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1973 series) #15 (1980) -
in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #33 (mai 1980) -
in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1321 (6 de julio de 1981) -
in Showcase Presents: DC Comics Presents: The Superman Team-Ups (DC, 2009 series) #1 (2009 [January 2010]) - in Black Lightning (DC, 2016 series) #2 ([March] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit provided by Anthony Tollin.
![Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents (1978 series) #16 [British]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1359/w100/1359140.jpg?3018725971051816567)
![Cover Thumbnail for DC Comics Presents (1978 series) #16 [Whitman]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/949/w100/949298.jpg?3706111166520490068)
The De-volver!
Black Lightning; Superman / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- S-3201
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent]; Black Lightning [Jefferson Pierce]; Lois Lane; Jimmy Olsen; Trina (introduction, death); Hugh Bryant (introduction, origin, villain)
- Synopsis
- Black Lightning stops a robbery on a subway train as it travels through Suicide Slum but causes one of the robbers to inadvertently shoot and kill another passenger, Trina. This angers Trina's boyfriend, Hugh Bryant, who is also one of Jefferson Pierce's students. Hugh, actually an alien trapped on earth for millions of years, "devolves" into his true form as an energy creature. Black Lightning and Superman subdue the creature and help him finally leave the planet.
- Reprints
- in Superman Superband (Egmont Ehapa, 1973 series) #15 (1980)
- in Superman Poche (Sage - Sagédition, 1976 series) #33 (mai 1980)
- in Supermán (Editorial Novaro, 1952 series) #1321 (6 de julio de 1981)
- in Showcase Presents: DC Comics Presents: The Superman Team-Ups (DC, 2009 series) #1 (2009 [January 2010])
- in Black Lightning (DC, 2016 series) #2 ([March] 2018)
-
Indexer Notes
Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.
[no title indexed]
Pair Mail / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- S-3228
Indexer Notes
Letters from Michael Burkhalter, Mark Lagasse, and B. Thon.
[no title indexed]
DC Puzzle / activity / 0.5 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Letters
- typeset
- Synopsis
- Word search puzzle containing characters from Action Comics.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Black Lightning; Superman -
1.
The De-volver!
Black Lightning; Superman -
2.
The Stony-Eyed Medusa
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
[no title indexed]
Pair Mail -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man -
5.
[no title indexed]
DC Puzzle
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Dan Creel
- Peter Croome
- Matthew Head
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Lou Mazzella
- Per Sandell
- Daniel Thingvold
- Richard Thomson
- Jim Van Dore
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