Action Comics
#894
[Regular Direct Cover]
(December 2010)
- Price:
- 3.99 USD
- Pages:
- 44
- Indicia frequency:
- monthly
- On-sale date:
- 2010-10-27
- Indicia Publisher:
- DC Comics
- Brand:
- DC
- Barcode:
- ?
- Editing:
- Matt Idelson; Wil Moss (assistant editor)
- Format:
- Standard Golden Age, Silver Age, then Modern US color comic; Saddle-stitched (Squarebound #334, 347, 360, 373, 437, 443, 449); ongoing series
Issue Notes
This issue has variants.
This issue went on sale on time. "Printed by Quad/Graphics, Montreal, QC, Canada. 10/20/10."
This issue was originally solicited with one cover, but in a press release on 2010-09-28, DC announced that artist P. Craig Russell (illustrator of key issues of THE SANDMAN and THE SANDMAN: DREAM HUNTERS miniseries) had created a variant cover to this issue (10 issues for 1 issue mixture).
The Black Ring Part Five
Lex Luthor / comic story / 20 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul Cornell; Neil Gaiman (Death's dialog)
- Pencils:
- Pete Woods
- Inks:
- Pete Woods
- Colors:
- Brad Anderson
- Letters:
- Rob Leigh
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- Lex Luthor; Death of the Endless; Superman (flashback, cameo); Joker (flashback, cameo); Dr. Light [Arthur Light] (flashback, cameo); Superboy [Conner Kent] (flashback, cameo); Lena Luthor (flashback, cameo); Lori Luthor (flashback, cameo); Robot Lois Lane [RoboLois] (cameo); Mr. Spalding (cameo); Spearhavoc (flashback, cameo); Vandal Savage (flashback, cameo)
- Synopsis:
- Lex finds himself with Death, gazing on his own body (after it was shot in the last issue). She gives him a life review. Lex tries arguing for his life, tries to bribe her, tries to gain her sympathy; but she's heard it all before. She gets his views on the afterlife, and Lex refuses to accept his fate. But he doesn't have to; Death reveals to him that he's not dead, and indeed, he awakens back in his jet, quite alive.
Indexer Notes
Story continued from the previous issue and continues in the next issue.
In interviews with Paul Cornell, Paul says that Neil wrote "quite a lot of Death's dialog", and hoped DC would credit Neil as co-writer (which they didn't; he's credited as "very special thanks to neil gaiman").
Jimmy Olsen's Big Week Day Two
Jimmy Olsen / comic story / 10 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Nick Spencer
- Pencils:
- R. B. Silva
- Inks:
- Denis Freitas [as Dym]
- Colors:
- Dave McCaig
- Letters:
- Rob Leigh
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- Jimmy Olsen; Perry White; Durvella Cwion; Chloe Sullivan; Sebastien Mallory; Mayor Fleming; Durvella's brother; Zack Howard (TV); Project Cadmus
- Synopsis:
- The leader of the alien fleet announces that her people want to hold their annual celebration on Earth this year. Jimmy and Sebastien are assigned to escort them around the city, while Chloe researches more about the aliens. The leader takes a liking to Jimmy, and they go for a joyride in her spaceship, crashing into the Daily Planet globe. Chloe finds out that the planets hosting the alien celebrations don't survive the event.
- Reprints:
- in Jimmy Olsen (DC, 2011 series) #1 (May 2011)
Indexer Notes
Story continued from the previous issue, and continues in the next issue.
Table of Contents
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1.
The Black Ring Part Five
Lex Luthor -
2.
Jimmy Olsen's Big Week Day Two
Jimmy Olsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Katie
- Gregory Fischer
- Allen Ross
- Mike Nielsen
- Bob Klein
- Jon Ingersoll
- Diverse Hands
- Brian Mowbray
- John Greb
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Lou Mazzella
- Carlos Tasada
- John Douglas Miceli
- Kyle Weber
- Terry Watkins
- Allen Ross
- Jerry Hillegas
- Gregory Fischer
- Donald Dale Milne
- Mike Nielsen
- Bob Hughes
- Darrel McCann
- Ed Boner
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