Adventure Comics #521 [Direct Sales]
(February 2011)

DC, 2009 Series
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Price
3.99 USD
Pages
44
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2010-12-02
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [swirl]
Barcode
761941281025 52111
Editing
Brian Cunningham (editor); Sean Ryan (associate editor)

Issue Notes

...And Who Shall Be Green Lantern? (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Scott Clark (signed)
Inks
Dave Beaty (signed)
Colors
Hi-Fi (signed)
Letters
?

Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Element Lad; Invisible Kid [Jacques Foccart]; Colossal Boy; Phantom Girl; Cosmic Boy; Mon-El]; Dyogene; The Atom [Ray Palmer] (inset)
Reprints

The Summons of the Ring (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Paul Levitz
Pencils
Geraldo Borges
Inks
Marlo Alquiza
Colors
Hi-Fi
Letters
Sal Cipriano

Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Earth-Man; Shadow Lass; Invisible Kid [Jacques Foccart]; Sun Boy; Tellus; Element Lad; Cosmic Boy; Dawnstar; Wildfire; Dream Girl; Quislet; Colossal Boy; Phantom Girl; Polar Boy; Mon-El; Invisible Kid [Lyle Norg] (statue); Ferro Lad (statue); Triplicate Girl (statue); Chemical King (statue); Karate Kid [Val Armorr] (statue)]; Dyogene; Kid Psycho (statue)
Synopsis
A Legion team responds to the damage caused by an apparent earthquake in Africa, but Wildfire and Dawnstar discover the cause of the destruction may have been something else entirely. Meanwhile, back at headquarters, Dyogene offers a Legionnaire a Green Lantern ring and he accepts.
Reprints

Nucleus, Part 6: Weapons of Mass-Reduction (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
David reveals he has control over the mechanical bugs and he and Ray harvest parts from them to repair their control units. They leave the escape house and expand to face the Colony once again. The Atom urges his uncle to flee without recovering the safe house, but the members of the Colony halt Ray in his tracks when they reveal that they have someone ready to kill his father if he doesn't turn over the white dwarf matter.

Indexer Notes

Storyline continues in Giant-Size Atom (DC, 2011 series) #1.

Special Sneak Preview of Weird Worlds #1 (Table of Contents: 3)

Lobo; Garbage Man; Tanga / preview (from the publisher) / 6 pages (report information)

Script
Kevin VanHook; Aaron Lopresti; Kevin Maguire
Pencils
Jerry Ordway; Aaron Lopresti; Kevin Maguire
Inks
Jerry Ordway; Matthew Ryan; Kevin Maguire
Colors
Pete Pantazis; Dave McCaig; Rosemary Cheetham
Letters
Jared K. Fletcher
Editing
Joey Cavalieri (editor); Chris Conroy (associate editor)

Genre
horror-suspense; science fiction; superhero
Characters
Lobo; Garbage Man; Tanga

Indexer Notes

Three 2-page previews of stories from Weird Worlds (DC, 2011) #1.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ...And Who Shall Be Green Lantern?
    The Atom; Legion of Super-Heroes
  2. 1. The Summons of the Ring
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  3. 2. Nucleus, Part 6: Weapons of Mass-Reduction
    The Atom
  4. 3. Special Sneak Preview of Weird Worlds #1
    Lobo; Garbage Man; Tanga
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