Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes
#256
[Whitman]
(October 1979)
DC,
1977 Series
- Volume
- 31
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
Whitman W [with Face]
- Barcode
- 3067010
- Editing
- Joe Orlando (managing editor); Jack C. Harris (editor)
Issue Notes
Barcode appears on cover but has a line through it which renders the barcode unscannable.
This issue is a variant of Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1977 series) #256. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1977 series) #256. There exist further variants:
This Is Your Life -- and Death -- Brainiac 5!
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Inks
- Dick Giordano (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Job Number
- C-160
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]]; Science Police
- Reprints
-
in Supercomic (Editorial Novaro, 1967 series) #188 (17 septiembre de 1980) -
in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([September] 2018)
-
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This is Your Life -- And Death, Brainiac 5!
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 17 pages
- Job Number
- J-6098
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Superboy [Kal-El]; Brainiac 5 [Querl Dox]; Saturn Girl [Imra Ardeen]; Lightning Lad [Garth Ranzz]; Cosmic Boy [Rokk Krinn]; Chameleon Boy [Reep Daggle]; Matter-Eater Lad [Tenzil Kem] (cameo); Mon-El [Lar Gand]; Shadow Lass [Tasmia Mallor]; Shrinking Violet [Salu Digby]; Gollosal Boy [Gim Allon]; Wildfire [Drake Burroughs]; Ultra Boy [Jo Nah]; Phantom Girl [Tinya Wazzo]; Timber Wolf [Brin Londo]; Light Lass [Ayla Ranzz]]; R. J. Brande; Science Police
- Synopsis
- The Legion take over Cosmic World in an attempt to cure Brainiac 5.
- Reprints
-
in Superboy (Egmont Ehapa, 1980 series) #3/1980 (März 1980) - in Supercomic (Editorial Novaro, 1967 series) #188 (17 septiembre de 1980)
-
in Superboy (Semic, 1977 series) #1/1981 (uke 8 1981) - in Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 2017 series) #2 ([September] 2018)
-
- Keywords
- Cosmic World
Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts
Hostess Fruit Pies; Wonder Woman / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Wonder Woman [Diana Prince]; 2 astronauts
- Synopsis
- A space shuttle cannot be reached by radio signal, so Wonder Woman leaves them a trail of Hostess Fruit Pies to guide them back to Earth.
- Keywords
- astronauts; space; space shuttle
Indexer Notes
Located between page 8 and 9 of story sequence.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Jack C. Harris
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-335
Indexer Notes
Letters from Andrew J. MacLaney, Gary A. Leach and Chuck Lee.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man / in-house column / 0.6 page
- Script
- Bob Rozakis
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- F-105
- Genre
- humor
Indexer Notes
DC questions
Number 47 Carol Fein
DC Profiles / in-house column / 0.4 page
- Script
- Paul Kupperberg
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- biography
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Michael Catron.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
This Is Your Life -- and Death -- Brainiac 5!
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
This is Your Life -- And Death, Brainiac 5!
Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
Wonder Woman Saves the Astronauts
Hostess Fruit Pies; Wonder Woman -
3.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Answer Man -
5.
Number 47 Carol Fein
DC Profiles
This issue was modified by
- Peter Croome
- Jochen G.
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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