The Legion of Super-Heroes #292 [Newsstand]
(October 1982)

DC, 1980 Series
< Previous Issue |
| Next Issue >
Volume
34
Price
0.60 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-07-15
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893067010
Editing
Dick Giordano (managing editor); Laurie Sutton (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from The Comic Reader #203.
This issue is a variant of The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #292 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

Darkness Transcendent (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Keith Giffen (signed)
Inks
Keith Giffen (signed)
Colors
Anthony Tollin
Letters
typeset
Job Number
C-983
Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Dream Girl; Brainiac 5; Sun Boy]; Servants of Darkness [Superman (clone); Orion (clone); Kalibak (clone); Guardian of the Universe (clone)]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.

Cover Thumbnail for The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #292 [Newsstand] Cover Thumbnail for The Legion of Super-Heroes (1980 series) #292 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for The Legion of Super-Heroes (1980 series) #292 [Canadian]
Edit cover
Cover gallery

Darkness Transcendent (Table of Contents: 1)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 23 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Pencils
Keith Giffen (breakdowns); Larry Mahlstedt (finished art)
Inks
Larry Mahlstedt
Colors
Carl Gafford
Letters
John Costanza
Job Number
J-8309
Genre
science fiction; superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Mon-El; Phantom Girl; Ultra Boy; Shadow Lass; Chameleon Boy; Blok; Dream Girl; Light Lass; Sun Boy; Invisible Kid [Jacques Foccart]; Cosmic Boy; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Brainiac 5; Element Lad; Star Boy; Wildfire; Dawnstar; Timber Wolf; Superboy (cameo); Karate Kid (cameo); Princess Projectra (cameo); Colossal Boy (cameo); Shrinking Violet (cameo)]; White Witch; Servants of Darkness [Superman (clone); Orion (clone); Kalibak (clone); Guardian of the Universe (clone)]; Darkseid; Bouncing Boy (cameo); Duo Damsel (cameo)
Synopsis
Newly-elected Legion leader Dream Girl and her team travel to Sorcerer's World, where they are attacked again by the Servants of Darkness. In the midst of the battle, a mysterious baby appears that the White Witch believes may be the key to their victory.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

"Chapter Three of the Great Darkness Saga"

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

The Legion Outpost / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-1081

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by Kevin T. Brown; Neil Ahlquist; Andrew J. MacLaney; Karen Wu. Also includes Legion Roll Call, an alphabetical listing of Legionnaires with brief information on each. This issue: Blok through Duo Damsel.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Darkness Transcendent
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  2. 1. Darkness Transcendent
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    The Legion Outpost
This issue was modified by
  • Dwayne Best
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Steven Samuels
  • Daniel Thingvold
  • Jim Van Dore
If you believe any of this data to be incorrect, please let us know.
Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders.
Creative Commons License All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.
The GCD Privacy Policy. The GCD Web Site code is licensed under the GNU General Public License.