The Legion of Super-Heroes
#298
[Newsstand]
(April 1983)
DC,
1980 Series
- Volume
- 35
- Price
- 0.60 USD
- Pages
- 52
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1983-01-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics Inc.
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 0709893067004
- Editing
- Dick Giordano (managing editor); Karen Berger (editor)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #298 [Direct].
There exist further variants:
The Edge of Nowhere!
Legion of Super-Heroes / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen (signed)
- Inks
- Larry Mahlstedt (signed)
- Colors
- Anthony Tollin
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino ?
- Job Number
- C-264
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Wildfire; Blok; White Witch]; Kharlak (partial)
- Reprints
-
in Supercomic (Editorial Novaro, 1967 series) #388 [cover] -
in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2011 series) ([December] 2011) - in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse (DC, 2014 series) ([November] 2014)
-
Indexer Notes
Colors credit confirmed by Anthony Tollin.
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The Edge of Nowhere
Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Keith Giffen (plot); Paul Levitz (plot, script)
- Pencils
- Keith Giffen
- Inks
- Larry Mahlstedt
- Colors
- Carl Gafford
- Letters
- John Costanza
- Job Number
- J-8559
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Legion of Super-Heroes [Blok; Wildfire; Dawnstar; White Witch; Invisible Kid [Jacques Foccart]; Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Colossal Boy; Shrinking Violet; Element Lad; Ultra Boy; Phantom Girl]; Dr. Larsh; Duplicate Boy; Shvaughn Erin; Kharlak; R. J. Brande
- Synopsis
- Kharlak the Khund returns to challenge a Legion team who are investigating a murder on a mining asteroid. Duplicate Boy flies to Earth to confront his girlfriend Shrinking Violet about her new relationship with Colossal Boy but leaves after punching out his rival.
- Reprints
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse The Deluxe Edition (DC, 2011 series) ([December] 2011)
- in Legion of Super-Heroes: The Curse (DC, 2014 series) ([November] 2014)
-
Duel in Dark Magic!
Amethyst / comic story / 16 pages
- Script
- Dan Mishkin; Gary Cohn
- Pencils
- Ernie Colón
- Inks
- Ernie Colón
- Colors
- Tom Ziuko
- Letters
- Ernie Colón; Todd Klein (series logo design)
- Editing
- Karen Berger; Dave Manak
- Job Number
- J-8173
- Genre
- fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Amethyst (introduction); Dark Opal (villain, introduction); Carnelian; Granch; Lord Sardonyx
- Synopsis
- Dark Opal has plans to conquer the Gemworld, but he knows Amethyst will be a great obstacle.
- Reprints
-
in Superman (Egmont Ehapa, 1966 series) #1/1984 (4. Januar 1984), #2/1984 (13. Januar 1984) -
in Super-Homem (Editora Abril, 1984 series) #1 (Julho 1984) - in Showcase Presents Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld (DC, 2012 series) ([November] 2012), ([November] 2012)
- in DC Through the '80s: The Experiments (DC, 2021 series) ([August] 2021)
-
Indexer Notes
special insert between pages 13 & 14 of main story
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1.75 pages
- Script
- Paul Levitz
- Letters
- typeset
- Job Number
- L-1221
Indexer Notes
Letters submitted by Sara Greenblatt, Jef Peckham, and Neil Ahlquist.
Sequence also includes The Legion Checklist, Part One (chronological listing of Legion stories from 1958 through 1964).
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
The Edge of Nowhere!
Legion of Super-Heroes -
1.
The Edge of Nowhere
Legion of Super-Heroes -
2.
Duel in Dark Magic!
Amethyst -
3.
[no title indexed]
Meanwhile... -
4.
[no title indexed]
The Legion Outpost -
5.
[no title indexed]
DC Coming Comics
This issue was modified by
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Jim Van Dore
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