Superman #172 [Direct Sales]
(September 2001)

DC, 1987 Series
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Price
2.25 USD; 3.75 CAD
Pages
40
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
2001-07-05
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
761941200491 17211
Editing
Eddie Berganza (editor); Tom Palmer Jr. (associate)

Issue Notes

2001 Diamond 34; Sequence number 34 for 2001. Our Worlds at War: All-Out War!
This issue has variants:

First Strike! (Table of Contents)

Superman / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Ed McGuinness
Inks
Cam Smith
Colors
Tanya Horie; Richard Horie
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman
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Death Be Not Proud (Table of Contents: 1)

Superman / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Jeph Loeb
Pencils
Ed McGuinness
Inks
Cam Smith
Colors
Tanya Horie; Richard Horie
Letters
Richard Starkings
Genre
superhero
Characters
Superman [Clark Kent]; Supergirl [Linda Danvers]; Imperiex Probe; Martian Manhunter [J'onn J'onzz] (voice only)
Synopsis
In Topeka, Kansas, Superman fights an Imperiex probe. Afterwards, Superman joins with Supergirl, and searches the destroyed Kent farm.
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Indexer Notes

Continues from Action Comics (DC, 1938 series) #780, and continues in JLA: Our Worlds at War (DC, 2001 series) #1.

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

Metropolis Mailbag / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike McAvennie
Pencils
?
Inks
?
Colors
?
Letters
typeset
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. First Strike!
    Superman
  2. 1. Death Be Not Proud
    Superman
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Metropolis Mailbag
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