Superman #356 [Direct]
(February 1981)

DC, 1939 Series
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Volume
43
Price
0.50 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1980
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Joe Orlando (managing editor); Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

Battle of the Super/Hyper Powers! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks
Dick Giordano (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
S-3504
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Vartox
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Battle of the Super-Hyper Powers! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 16.67 pages (report information)

Script
Cary Bates
Pencils
Curt Swan
Inks
Frank Chiaramonte
Colors
Adrienne Roy
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
S-3486
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Vartox (Guest Star); Lana Lang; Steve Lombard
Synopsis
Vartox returns to Earth from his new adopted planet Tynola to tell Lana goodby, and also to secretly ask Superman for help.
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The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

Current Super-Attractions (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.33 page (report information)

The Exile from Krypton! (Table of Contents: 4)

The Fabulous World of Krypton / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Paul S. Newman
Pencils
José Delbo
Inks
Kim DeMulder
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Shelly Leferman
Job Number
S-3439
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Sen-Tal; Lok-Nor
Synopsis
Lok-Nor meets an alien spaceship and is tricked into making his people slaves.
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Indexer Notes

Credits for script, pencils and inks confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Battle of the Super/Hyper Powers!
    Superman
  2. 1. Battle of the Super-Hyper Powers!
    Superman
  3. 2. The Flash Meets the Bureauc-Rat
    The Flash; Hostess Fruit Pies
  4. 3. Current Super-Attractions
  5. 4. The Exile from Krypton!
    The Fabulous World of Krypton
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Metropolis Mailbag
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