Adventure Comics #519 [Direct Sales]
(December 2010)

DC, 2009 Series
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Price
3.99 USD
Pages
44
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2010-10-13
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [swirl]
Barcode
761941281025 51911
Editing
Brian Cunningham (editor); Sean Ryan (associate editor)

Issue Notes

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Atom; Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Scott Clark
Inks
Dave Beaty
Colors
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Superboy [Clark Kent]; Cosmic Boy; Brainiac 5]; The Atom [Ray Palmer] (inset)
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Kevin Sharpe and Marlo Alquiza are mistakenly listed on the cover as the artists of the lead story.

Playing Hooky II (Table of Contents: 1)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Pencils
Eduardo Pansica
Inks
Eber Ferreira
Colors
Blond
Letters
Sal Cipriano

Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Chameleon Boy; Invisible Kid; Shrinking Violet; Brainiac 5; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Superboy [Clark Kent]]; Zaryan; Brainiac probe; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Lana Lang
Synopsis
While a stealthy trio of Legionnaires nearly captures Zaryan, Brainiac 5 takes the founders to Superboy's Smallville for his own secret purposes.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Story features the first mission of what would become the Legion Espionage Squad. Zaryan's henchman uses a freeze ray like the one that will seemingly kill Lightning Lad in Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series) #304.

Nucleus, Part 4: Colonized (Table of Contents: 2)

The Atom / comic story / 10 pages (report information)

Script
Jeff Lemire
Pencils
Mahmud Asrar
Inks
John Dell
Colors
Pete Pantazis
Letters
Sal Cipriano

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Atom [Ray Palmer]; David Palmer
Synopsis
The Atom evades the Colony army long enough to find his uncle, who explains the history of the Colony, an organization dedicated to the preservation of humankind. Uncle David takes Ray into the microscopic world he has created as a safe house for civilization, but they are followed by fighters from the Colony.

Special Sneak Preview: Superman: Earth One (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Superman / preview (from the publisher) / 5 pages (report information)

Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    The Atom; Legion of Super-Heroes
  2. 1. Playing Hooky II
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  3. 2. Nucleus, Part 4: Colonized
    The Atom
  4. 3. Special Sneak Preview: Superman: Earth One
    Superman
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