The Legion of Super-Heroes
#271
[Direct]
(January 1981)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 33
- Price
- 0.50 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)
Issue Notes
The entire issue without cover is reprinted in Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (DC, 1981 series) #5
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
The Dark Man!
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jim Janes (signed)
- Inks
- Steve Mitchell (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino
- Job Number
- C-463
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Light Lass; Wildfire; Saturn Girl]; Dark Man; Tharok; Blok
- Reprints
-
in Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (DC, 2021 series) #1 (2020 [April 2021])
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![Cover Thumbnail for The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #271 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1220/w200/1220941.jpg?-6138859252980846323)
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What Is the Dark Man?
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 25 pages
- Job Number
- J-6855
- Genre
- science fiction; superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Timber Wolf; Light Lass; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Princess Projectra; Wildfire; Mon-El; Shadow Lass; Shrinking Violet]; Dark Man; Fatal Five [Emerald Empress; Mano; The Persuader; Validus; Tharok]; Blok; Marte Allon
- Synopsis
- The Legionnaires discover that the Dark Man is a clone of Tharok, and they form a temporary alliance with the Fatal Five to defeat him.
- Reprints
- in Elson's Presents Super Heroes Comics (DC, 1981 series) #5 (1981)
-
in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #6/1982 (uke 12 1982) -
in Legion Des Super-Heros (Arédit-Artima, 1983 series) #2 - La Menace de L'Homme Noir (mai 1983) - in Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness (DC, 2021 series) #1 (2020 [April 2021])
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Indexer Notes
Colossal Boy's mother, Marte Ida Allon, is elected President of Earth.
The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Flash [Barry Allen]; Bureauc-Rat
- Synopsis
- The Flash stops the Bureauc-Rat and his Red-Tape Gun with a Hostess Fruit Pie.
- Reprints
- Keywords
- red-tape gun
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1 page
- Job Number
- L-640
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by David Scott and Alicia Wu.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
The Dark Man!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
What Is the Dark Man?
Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Dwayne Best
- Nick Caputo
- Peter Croome
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Clint Maxwell
- Mark Q
- Per Sandell
- Jim Van Dore
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