Adventures of Superman
#438
[Newsstand]
(March 1988)
DC,
1987 Series
- Price
- 0.75 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1987-12-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893114003
- Editing
- Michael Carlin
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #130.
This issue is a variant of Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #438 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #438 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
[no title indexed]
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jerry Ordway (signed as Da Ordster)
- Inks
- Jerry Ordway (signed as Da Ordster)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
- Reprints
-
in Supermán (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1986 series) #77 (Septiembre 19 de 1989) -
in Superman: The Man of Steel (DC, 2003 series) #7 ([April] 2013) - in Superman: The Man of Steel (DC, 2020 series) #3 ([August] 2021)
-
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...The Amazing Brainiac
Superman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- John Byrne (credited)
- Pencils
- Jerry Ordway (credited)
- Inks
- John Beatty (credited)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin (credited)
- Letters
- Albert DeGuzman (credited as Albert T. DeGuzman)
- Job Number
- G-3457
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]; Cat Grant; Jimmy Olsen; Adam Morgan; Jerry White; Lois Lane; Mr. Chin; Mrs. Chin; Ronnie Chin; Janet Jones; Selena the Beautiful Buxum Bearded Lady; Harry; Dr. Howard (first appearance); VILLAIN: Brainiac [Milton Fine; Vril Dox] (first post-Crisis appearance)
- Synopsis
- Superman, Cat and Jimmy spend a day at the circus, little knowing that they will be meeting one of Superman's greatest foes... Brainiac.
- Reprints
- in Supermán (Grupo Editorial Vid, 1986 series) #77 (Septiembre 19 de 1989)
-
in Supermann (Semic, 1985 series) #9/1989 (uke 38 1989) - in Superman vs. Brainiac (DC, 2008 series) (2008 [January 2009])
- in Superman: The Man of Steel (DC, 2003 series) #7 ([April] 2013)
- in Superman: The Man of Steel (DC, 2020 series) #3 ([August] 2021)
-
[no title indexed]
The Adventures of Superman / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Mike Carlin ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-3059
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers - Matthew A. Young, Charles D. Brown, Joe Frank, Richard Padilla, Jarrod Cline, Charlie Harris, T.M. Maple, R. Ray and Howard T. Kidd.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Superman -
1.
...The Amazing Brainiac
Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
The Adventures of Superman
This issue was modified by
- Steven Samuels
- Jim Van Dore
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