Superman Special #3 [Direct]
([April] 1985)

DC, 1983 Series
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Price
1.25 USD; 1.60 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
annually
On-sale Date
1984-12-24
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 #11.
This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Eduardo Barreto (signed)
Inks
Eduardo Barreto (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Amazo
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Amazo Means Mayhem! (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 45 pages (report information)

Script
E. Nelson Bridwell (plot); Len Wein (script)
Pencils
Irv Novick
Inks
Pablo Marcos
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Milt Snapinn
Job Number
S-4413
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Amazo (villain); Professor Ivo (villain); Luthor (cameo); Brainiac (cameo); The Key (cameo); Jimmy Olsen; Ryan Lowell (Obit editor at the Planet); The Amazing Presto [Peter]; Josh Coyle; Lana Lang; Perry White
Synopsis
Professor Ivo reactivates Amazo and sends him against Superman in an effort to cure himself from the effects of his immortality serum.
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Keywords
Bottle City of Kandor; Daily Planet; Fortress of Solitude

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

Meanwhile... / in-house column / 0.9 page (report information)

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

DC Check List / in-house column / 0.1 page (report information)

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Superman
  2. 1. Amazo Means Mayhem!
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Meanwhile...
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    DC Check List
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