Superman: The Man of Steel #50 [Direct Sales]
(November 1995)

DC, 1991 Series
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Price
2.95 USD; 4.25 CAD; 2.00 GBP
Pages
52
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1995-09-14
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
761941200507 05011
Editing
Mike Carlin (editor); KC Carlson (editor); Chris Duffy (assistant); Mike McAvennie (assistant)

Issue Notes

1995 Triangle #43.
This issue has variants:

The Trial of Superman! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jon Bogdanove (signed)
Inks
Dennis Janke (signed)
Colors
Android Images (separations); Marjorie Strauss
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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Split Personality [The Trial of Superman, Part 1 of 12] (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 38 pages (report information)

Script
Louise Simonson
Pencils
Jon Bogdanove
Inks
Dennis Janke
Colors
Glenn Whitmore
Letters
Ken Lopez
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Tribunal [Prime; Pollux; Ternion] (first appearance); Dan Turpin; Maggie Sawyer; Alpha Centurion [Marcus Aelius]; The Centurions; Jimmy Olsen; Lois Lane; Dr. Nolin; Perry White; Mope [Mope-Stattor Neer]; Rachel Freeman; Eric Freeman (first appearance; Torval's son); Zack; Sam; Brute (first appearance; villain; death); Parasite [Rudy Jones; Dr. Torval Freeman] (villain)
Synopsis
Superman is snatched from a battle with the Parasite by the alien Brute and placed under arrest. While Superman tricks his captor into letting him recharge his energies in the rays of a yellow sun, Alpha Centurion continues the fight with the Parasite on Earth. In space, Superman is recaptured by Brute and brought before the Tribunal and charged with the death of one billion Kryptonians.
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Indexer Notes

Story continues from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #715 and story continues in Superman (DC, 1986 series) #106.

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

Tempered Steel / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Mike McAvennie
Pencils
Jon Bogdanove
Inks
Dennis Janke
Colors
Marjorie Strauss; Android Images (separations)
Letters
typeset
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
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Indexer Notes

Letters from readers - Gregory Kenfield, Ed Dillon, Shawn Lesser, William Sommerwerck, Bob Kowalski and Michael Foschini - and responses from Mike McAvennie.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Trial of Superman!
    Superman
  2. 1. Split Personality [The Trial of Superman, Part 1 of 12]
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Tempered Steel
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Morbus Iff
  • Thomas Kina
  • Jim Van Dore
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