Superman: The Man of Steel
#21
[Direct]
(March 1993)
DC,
1991 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.60 CAD; 0.60 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1993-01-14
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Editing
- Mike Carlin (editor); Jennifer Frank (assistant)
Issue Notes
1993 Triangle #9.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
Funeral for a Friend/7
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Jon Bogdanove (signed)
- Inks
- Dennis Janke (signed)
- Colors
- Dennis Janke
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent
- Reprints
-
in Superman: World without a Superman (DC, 1993 series) ([July] 1993) - in Superman (DC, 2016 series) #2 - Funeral for a Friend ([May] 2016)
- in Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) ([June] 2019)
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Ghosts [Funeral for a Friend, Part 7]
Superman / comic story / 22 pages
- Job Number
- G-7701
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (flashback; dream); Lois Lane; Martha Kent; Jonathan Kent; Guardian [Jim Harper]; Newsboy Legion II [Big Words [Anthony Rodrigues] (clone); Flip [Walter Johnson] (clone); Gabby [John Gabrielli] (clone); Scrapper [Patrick MacGuire] (clone); Tommy [Thomas Thompkins] (clone)]; Dubbilex; Batman [Bruce Wayne]; Alfred Pennyworth; Charlie Dawson; Underworlders [Grub; Neep; Teletype; Bubble-Up; Stretch; Sponge; Hot House]; Ed; Captain Maggie Sawyer; Superman Cult
- Synopsis
- Lois, with the help of the Newsboy Legion and the Underworlders, breaks into Cadmus to search for Superman's body. Jonathan has a heart attack.
- Reprints
- in Superman: World without a Superman (DC, 1993 series) ([July] 1993) which is reprinted
-
in Super-Homem: Funeral para um Amigo (Editora Abril, 1994 series) #4 (Abril 1994) -
in Superman (TM-Semic, 1990 series) #11/1995 ([listopad] 1995) - in The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) ([November] 2007) [pages 4-5, 7-8, 15, 22 only]
- in Superman (DC, 2016 series) #2 - Funeral for a Friend ([May] 2016)
- in Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) ([June] 2019)
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in Indexer Notes
Story continues from ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #686 and story continues in SUPERMAN (DC, 1987 series) #77.
[no title indexed]
Superman the Man of Steel / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Jennifer Frank
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers - Mark Lucas, David Scott, Steve Sanchez, Kashif Husain, Jamie Ewing, Joe Kucharski III, The Great Buck, Kenneth Livengood, Keith Cooper, Jim Jackson and Carl Pietrantonio - and responses from Jennifer Frank.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Funeral for a Friend/7
Superman -
1.
Ghosts [Funeral for a Friend, Part 7]
Superman -
2.
DC Universe [R.I.P. Superman]
DC Universe -
3.
[no title indexed]
Superman the Man of Steel
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Gregory Fischer
- Morbus Iff
- Thomas Kina
- Jim Van Dore
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