The Legion of Super-Heroes #284 [Newsstand]
(February 1982)

DC, 1980 Series
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Volume
34
Price
0.60 USD; 0.20 GBP
Pages
40
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1981-11-19
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
DC Comics Inc.
Brand
DC [bullet]
Barcode
0709893067002
Editing
Mike W. Barr (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Comic Reader #196.
This issue is a variant of The Legion of Super-Heroes (DC, 1980 series) #284 [Direct].

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

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

Pencils
Pat Broderick (signed)
Inks
Romeo Tanghal (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Job Number
C-756
First Line of Dialogue or Text
This is Medicus One...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Dawnstar; Element Lad; Lightning Lad; Sun Boy; Timber Wolf; Light Lass]
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The Soul-Thief from the Stars (Table of Contents: 1)

Legion of Super-Heroes / comic story / 27 pages (report information)

Script
Paul Levitz
Pencils
Pat Broderick
Inks
Bruce Patterson
Colors
Gene D'Angelo
Letters
Ben Oda
Job Number
J-7726
Genre
superhero
Characters
Legion of Super-Heroes [Lightning Lad; Saturn Girl; Chameleon Boy; Shadow Lass; Brainiac 5; Element Lad; Sun Boy; Wildfire; Ultra Boy; Cosmic Boy; Blok; Light Lass; Timber Wolf; Dawnstar; Karate Kid; Dream Girl; Mon-El (cameo); Colossal Boy (cameo); Phantom Girl (cameo)]; Bouncing Boy; Duo Damsel; The Organleggers (first appearance); Dr. Gym'll (first appearance); Organus (first appearance)
Synopsis
Timber Wolf is on the hospital satellite Medicus One for plastic surgery to regain his human face and alerts the Legion to a raid by the Organleggers. One Legion team fights the raiders off but another team must return later to face Organus, a creature accidentally created during the earlier battle.
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Indexer Notes

Bouncing Boy and Duo Damsel return to reserve status, Karate Kid and Princess Projectra take leaves of absence, and Tyroc is granted an honorable discharge.

Marathon Madman (Table of Contents: 2) (Expand) /

The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes / comics-form advertising / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

The Legion Outpost / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Mike W. Barr ?
Letters
typeset
Job Number
L-916

Indexer Notes

Letters submitted by Stewart Landers; Roger Caldwell; T. M. Maple; Andrew Maclaney.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["This is Medicus One..."]
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  2. 1. The Soul-Thief from the Stars
    Legion of Super-Heroes
  3. 2. Marathon Madman
    The Flash; Hostess Cup Cakes
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    The Legion Outpost
This issue was modified by
  • Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
  • Jim Van Dore
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