Superman Adventures #5 [Direct Sales]
(March 1997)

DC, 1996 Series
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Price
1.75 USD; 2.50 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1997-01-02
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
761941207803 00511
Editing
Mike McAvennie

Issue Notes

This issue has variants:

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Rick Burchett
Inks
Terry Austin
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Todd Klein
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Live Wire
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Indexer Notes

Letters credit from Todd Klein via http://kleinletters.com/.

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Balance of Power (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Scott McCloud
Pencils
Bret Blevins
Inks
Terry Austin
Colors
Marie Severin
Letters
Lois Buhalis
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman; Live Wire; Lois Lane; Angela Chen; Jimmy Olsen; Lex Luthor; Mercy Graves; Reggie Banks
Synopsis
Live Wire revives and decides to make up for years of male domination of women by preventing the work of any men from appearing in any mass communications medium. After an initial defeat at the hands of Live Wire, Superman challenges her to another match, where, with the help of Luthor's technology, the Man of Steel contains the villainess.
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[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Superman Adventures / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Mike McAvennie
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Editing
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    Superman
  2. 1. Balance of Power
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Superman Adventures
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Dwayne Best
  • Thomas Kina
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Jim Van Dore
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