The Man Called Nova #23 [British]

(January 1979)

From the Dregs of Defeat! (Table of Contents: 1)

Nova / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script

Marv Wolfman

Pencils

Carmine Infantino (pages 1-10, 13-17); Gene Colan (pages 11-12)

Inks

Klaus Janson (credited as Many Hands) (pages 4-6); Terry Austin (credited as Many Hands) (pages 7-8); Tom Palmer (credited as Many Hands) (pages 11-12); Bob Wiacek (credited as Many Hands) (pages 13-15); Walter Simonson (credited as Many Hands) (page 16); Joe Rubinstein (credited as Many Hands) (pages 9, 17); ? [as Many Hands] (pages 1-3); ? [as Many Hands] (page 10)

Colors

Janice Cohen

Letters

Jim Novak

Job Number

LG166

Genre

superhero; science fiction

Characters

Nova [Richard Rider]; Doctor Sun (origin); Diamondhead; Comet; Robert Rider; Ginger Jaye; Bernie Dillon; Mike Burley; Dracula (flashback); Rachel Van Helsing (flashback); Frank Drake (flashback); Harold H. Harold (flashback); Sphinx (cameo)

Synopsis

Doctor Sun lures Nova and Comet into his hideout, then takes Nova to the Nova-Prime spaceship, from where he plans to conquer the world.

Reprints

• in Nova (Editions Lug, 1978 series) #24 (10 janvier 1980)
• in Essential Nova (Marvel, 2006 series) #1 (2006) [black and white]
• in Nova Classic (Marvel, 2013 series) #3 (2014)

Indexer Notes

Art information and index 2005 by Steven Tice, updated 2010. Walt Simonson confirmed he inked page 16.
Previous indexer credited page 9 inks to Bob McLeod;however, Terry Staats conformed with Joe Rubinstein on 25 October, 2018 that this page was inked by Joe.