DC Comics Presents #84 [Direct]
(August 1985)

DC, 1978 Series
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Price
0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD; 0.35 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1985-04-09
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); Tom Condon (managing editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from DC Releases #15.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Challengers of the Unknown; Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks
Greg Theakston (signed)
Colors
Greg Theakston
Letters
?
Genre
superhero; adventure
Characters
Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Prof Haley; Red Ryan; Rocky Davis]; Superman
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Indexer Notes

Cover colorist credit from Greg Theakston.

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Give Me Power...Give Me Your World! (Table of Contents: 1)

Challengers of the Unknown; Superman / comic story / 24 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Pencils
Jack Kirby (pages 1-2, 10-24); Alex Toth (pages 3-9)
Inks
Greg Theakston
Colors
Greg Theakston
Letters
John Costanza
Genre
superhero; adventure
Characters
Superman; Challengers of the Unknown [Ace Morgan; Rocky Davis; Red Ryan; Prof Haley]; Mr. Jenkins; Jor-El (flashback); Lara (flashback); Zo-Mar (introduction, villain); Phantom Zone inhabitants [General Zod; Jax-Ur]; Miss Bernstein
Synopsis
At the Daily Planet, the Challengers of the Unknown seek help to contact Superman to help them solve the mystery of a card with a Kryptonian letter. Superman uses his mind-prober ray to recall Zo-Mar, a Kryptonian criminal shot into space before the discovery of the Phantom Zone, and his mind-slaving card. Superman and the Challs find Zo-Mar, but he enslaves them all with his card. The card, however, inhibits Kryptonian super-powers, and when Superman and the Challs trick Zo-Mar into grabbing the card, they make him weak enough that Superman can knock him out and send him to the Phantom Zone.
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Keywords
Fortress of Solitude; Phantom Zone

Indexer Notes

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

Pages 3-9 were originally created as a Challengers of the Unknown story to appear in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #498.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Pair Mail / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Bob Rozakis
Letters
typeset
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What made 'A World Full of Supermen' so much fun was not only its connection…

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Neil Ahlquist, Kevin Lawless, Rick Steel, and Michael Pickens.

The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming! (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

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

Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Challengers of the Unknown; Superman
  2. 1. Give Me Power...Give Me Your World!
    Challengers of the Unknown; Superman
  3. 2. ["What made 'A World Full of Supermen' so much fun was not only its connection…"]
    Pair Mail
  4. 3. The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!
    Meanwhile...
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