(August 2009)

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Price
4.99 USD
Pages
52
On-sale Date
2009-06-17
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [swirl]
Barcode
761941200026 01211
Editing
Matt Idelson (editor); Wil Moss (assistant editor)

Issue Notes

This issue went on sale on time.

The Origin of Nightwing and Flamebird! (Table of Contents)

Nightwing and Flamebird / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Renato Guedes (signed)
Inks
Renato Guedes (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Nightwing [Chris Kent]; Flamebird [Thara Ak-Var]; Non; General Zod; Ursa; Zor-El; Alura
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[The Origin of Nightwing and Flamebird!] (Table of Contents: 1)

Nightwing and Flamebird / comic story / 40 pages (report information)

Script
Greg Rucka
Pencils
Pere Pérez
Inks
Pere Pérez
Colors
Maz!
Letters
Rob Leigh

Genre
superhero
Characters
Black Zero [Ursa; Ak-Var (intro, death); Tes Ak-Var (intro, death)] (intro); Thara Ak-Var [Flamebird]; Zor-El; Alura; Chris Kent [Nightwing]; Superman; Non; General Zod; Lois Lane (on monitor); Dev-Em
Synopsis
In the past on Krypton, Ursa leads the Black Zero unit as Kandor is being taken by Brainiac. Ak-Var and his wife Tes are a part of the unit, and concerned because their daughter Thara is there. They locate her as one of the people that Brainiac is rounding up into the middle of the city, but the unit is taken down. A wounded Ursa and Thara watch from opposite sides as a bottle is formed around the middle of the city, killing Thara's parents. Kandor is now in Brainiac's ship, but ignored until Argo City is later discovered in space, and its people, including Zor-El and Alura, are added to Kandor. As they knew Thara and they miss their daughter, they form a family. Years later, after Chris Kent has sacrificed himself into the Phantom Zone at the end of the Phantom Zone invasion of Earth, he undergoes an abnormal growth spurt. He returns to Fort Rozz, and hides there with the help of Non. Back in Kandor, Thara has joined the military guild, but then gets invited to join the religious guild, and becomes a monk. In Fort Rozz, Chris sneaks into Zod's lab, and sees Superman and Lois on a monitor, and tries to contact them using some Brainiac technology. Instead, it forms a painful connection between Chris and Thara. Chris is revealed by his pain. Thara can no longer be a monk, she returns to Zor-El and Alura, and has an obsession to go to the Phantom Zone and get Chris. She finally armors up and goes there, but is almost thwarted by Non. But he takes pity on them, and, having stolen the projector, projects them back to Kandor, and destroys the projector.
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Keywords
Argo City; Brainiac Probes; Fort Rozz (misspelled as Roz); Kandor; Phantom Zone

Indexer Notes

The story is untitled; title here taken from the cover. This story is told in narrative form.

Red Cirle Has Arrived (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

Daily Planet / promo (ad from the publisher) / 5 pages (report information)

This is some way to kick off the summer, isn't it? [June 17, 2009] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

DC Nation / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

[House Advertisement] (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Ads] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

advertisement / 4 pages (report information)

Cartoon Network This Summer (Table of Contents: 6)

insert or dust jacket / 8 pages (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
?

Indexer Notes

A 5 inch by 7 inch booklet (separately stapled and not stapled into the main book) that previews the summer TV shows on Cartoon Network.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Origin of Nightwing and Flamebird!
    Nightwing and Flamebird
  2. 1. [The Origin of Nightwing and Flamebird!]
    Nightwing and Flamebird
  3. 2. Red Cirle Has Arrived
    Daily Planet
  4. 3. This is some way to kick off the summer, isn't it? [June 17, 2009]
    DC Nation
  5. 4. [House Advertisement]
  6. 5. [Ads]
  7. 6. Cartoon Network This Summer
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Bob Hughes
  • Martin Olsen
  • Allen Ross
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore