(September 1983)

DC, 1980 Series
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Volume
4
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-05-31
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Editing
Julius Schwartz (editor); E. Nelson Bridwell (consulting editor)

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superboy / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Gil Kane (signed as GK)
Inks
Gil Kane (signed as GK)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
Gaspar Saladino
Job Number
S-4181
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What's turned Japan's greatest movie-hero-- --Into a real-life super-villain?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superboy; Sunburst
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Indexer Notes

Art credits and job number confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics. Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for The New Adventures of Superboy (DC, 1980 series) #45 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for The New Adventures of Superboy (1980 series) #45 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for The New Adventures of Superboy (1980 series) #45 [Canadian]
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Sunburst -- Public Enemy #1 (Table of Contents: 1)

Superboy / comic story / 15 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Kupperberg
Pencils
Alex Saviuk
Inks
Kurt Schaffenberger
Colors
Jerry Serpe
Letters
Todd Klein
Job Number
S-4157
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superboy [Clark Kent]; Sunburst (introduction); Lisa Davis; Jake; Bash; Nancy; Mr. Shaw; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Malcolm
Synopsis
A fictional Japanese movie character appears as a live super-villain.
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Indexer Notes

Job number, title and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics

Story continues in the following issue.

Secret of the "H"-Dials: Dial "O" for Origin! (Table of Contents: 2)

Dial H for Hero / comic story / 7.67 pages (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell; Bob Rozakis
Pencils
Howard Bender
Inks
Dennis Jensen
Colors
Shelley Eiber
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
S-4190
Genre
superhero
Characters
Nick Stevens; Chris King; Vicki Grant; The Master; The Wizard (introduction)
Synopsis
Chris, Nick and Vicki learn the origin of the H Dials.
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Indexer Notes

Job number and page count confirmed from Julie Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC.

Pages 4 and 5 printed out of order.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

Now You Can Dial "H" for Hero (Table of Contents: 4)

Dial H for Hero / activity / 0.33 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?; typeset
Genre
superhero

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

Smallville Mailsack / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Pencils
José Luis García-López
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
S-4186

Indexer Notes

Job number and page count confirmed from Julius Schwartz's editorial records, provided by DC Comics.

Letters of comment from readers Kent A. Phenis, Mary Bailey, T. M. Maple, Andrew MacLaney, Wade Basher, Gilbert Compo, and Michael Allen Vorwald.

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["What's turned Japan's greatest movie-hero-- --Into a real-life super-villain?"]
    Superboy
  2. 1. Sunburst -- Public Enemy #1
    Superboy
  3. 2. Secret of the "H"-Dials: Dial "O" for Origin!
    Dial H for Hero
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  5. 4. Now You Can Dial "H" for Hero
    Dial H for Hero
  6. 5. [no title indexed]
    Smallville Mailsack
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Nick Caputo
  • Peter Croome
  • Juan Gonzalez
  • Terry Jeffress
  • Lou Mazzella
  • Donald Dale Milne
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Alan Smith
  • Richard Thomson
  • Jim Van Dore
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