The Legion of Super-Heroes #287

(May 1982)

Save the Suicide Squad (Table of Contents)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 18 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Levitz

Pencils:

Keith Giffen

Inks:

Bruce Patterson

Colors:

Gene D'Angelo

Letters:

John Costanza

Job Number:

J-7987

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; superhero

Characters:

Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Light Lass; Star Boy; Blok; Element Lad; Saturn Girl; Sun Boy; Cosmic Boy; Chameleon Boy; Timber Wolf; Shrinking Violet; Colossal Boy]; Kharlak; Khunds

Synopsis:

Three Legionnaires infiltrate the Khund homeworld but are discovered and forced to fight renowned warrior Kharlak. They defeat him just as a rescue mission arrives to take them home, but the rescue ship crashes.

Reprints:

• in Superserien (Semic, 1982 series) #22/1982 (uke 44 1982)
• in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2010 series) #[nn] ([November] 2010)

The Saga Continues! (Table of Contents)

Swamp Thing / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Tom Yeates

Inks:

Tom Yeates

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

horror-suspense

Indexer Notes

house ad for Saga of the Swamp Thing, The (DC, 1982 series) #1, on sale February 11

The Fury of Firestorm the Nuclear Man (Table of Contents)

Firestorm / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

?

Pencils:

Pat Broderick

Inks:

Dick Giordano

Colors:

?

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Indexer Notes

house ad for Fury of Firestorm, The (DC, 1982 series) #1, on sale March 4

Prologue to Darkness (Table of Contents)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Levitz

Pencils:

Pat Broderick

Inks:

Larry Mahlstedt

Colors:

Gene D'Angelo

Letters:

Adam Kubert

Job Number:

J-8022

Content Information

Genre:

science fiction; superhero

Characters:

Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El; Shadow Lass]; Darkseid (cameo)

Synopsis:

Mon-El and Shadow Lass investigate a lifeless planet that has drifted into an interstellar space lane. Finding nothing except automated booby-traps, they leave, but on the other side of the planet, an unidentified figure awakes.

Reprints:

• in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga (DC, 1989 series) #[nn] (1989)
• in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2010 series) #[nn] ([November] 2010)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Legion Outpost / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Paul Levitz

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by Mike Turner; Robert A. Buethe

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Credits

Letters:

typeset

Indexer Notes

Statement of October 1, 1981
Average number of copies sold during preceding 12 months (total paid circulation): 117,038
Actual number sold for issue nearest filing date (total paid circulation): 115,738
Owner: DC Comics, Inc., wholly owned by Warner Communications, Inc., a publicly-held company, both at 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10019