Adventures of Superman
#498
[Newsstand]
(January 1993)
DC,
1987 Series
- Price
- 1.25 USD; 1.50 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- DC Comics
- Brand
-
DC [bullet]
- Barcode
- 070992311408 01
- Editing
- Mike Carlin; Jennifer Frank (assistant)
Issue Notes
1993 Triangle #3. "This issue dedicated to the memory of Joe Shuster."
This issue is a variant of Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #498 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
This issue is a variant of Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #498 [Direct]. There exist further variants:
Funeral for a Friend/1
Superman / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Tom Grummett (signed)
- Inks
- Doug Hazlewood (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El]
- Reprints
-
in Superman: World without a Superman (DC, 1993 series) ([July] 1993) -
in Superman (Play Press, 1993 series) #1 (Novembre 1993) -
in Super-Homem: Funeral para um Amigo (Editora Abril, 1994 series) #1 (Março 1994) -
in Superman (TM-Semic, 1990 series) #9/1995 ([wrzesień] 1995) - in Superman: Cover to Cover (DC, 2006 series) ([August] 2006)
- in Superman (DC, 2016 series) #2 - Funeral for a Friend ([May] 2016)
-
in Superman Anthologie (Panini Deutschland, 2018 series) (2018) - in Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) ([June] 2019)
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![Cover Thumbnail for Adventures of Superman (DC, 1987 series) #498 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/1259/w200/1259629.jpg?7326512538408998494)
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Death of a Legend [Funeral for a Friend, Part 1]
Superman / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Jerry Ordway
- Pencils
- Tom Grummett
- Inks
- Doug Hazlewood
- Colors
- Glenn Whitmore
- Letters
- Albert DeGuzman
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Superman [Clark Kent; Kal-El] (corpse); Lois Lane; Justice League America [JLA; Bloodwynd [Martian Manhunter; J'onn J'onzz]; Ice [Tora Olafsdotter]]; Guardian [Jim Harper]; Supergirl [Matrix]; Jimmy Olsen; Cat Grant; Jose Delgado; Adam Morgan; Steve Lombard; Jonathan Kent; Martha Kent; Paul Westfield; Murph; Professor Emil Hamilton; Bibbo Bibbowski; Perry White; Ron Troupe; Whit; Captain Maggie Sawyer; Dan Turpin; Dubbilex; Officer Champley; Doomsday (villain; corpse); Lex Luthor (villain)
- Synopsis
- Guardian, Professor Emil Hamilton and others try to bring Superman back to life.
- Reprints
- in Superman: World without a Superman (DC, 1993 series) ([July] 1993) which is reprinted
- in Super-Homem: Funeral para um Amigo (Editora Abril, 1994 series) #1 (Março 1994) [Foi suprimida a página 1]
- in Superman (TM-Semic, 1990 series) #9/1995 ([wrzesień] 1995)
- in The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (DC, 2007 series) ([November] 2007) [pages 1-9, 12, 14-22 only]
- in Superman (DC, 2016 series) #2 - Funeral for a Friend ([May] 2016)
- in Superman: The Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (DC, 2019 series) ([June] 2019)
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Indexer Notes
Story continues from JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA (DC, 1989 series) #70 and story continues in ACTION COMICS (DC, 1938 series) #685.
[no title indexed]
Kryptograms / letters page / 2 pages
- Script
- Jennifer Frank
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from readers - Ingrid Nuernberg, Bob Elinskas, David R. Thiel, Gerald Wilson, Joe Frank and Chris Tirro - and responses from Jennifer Frank.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Funeral for a Friend/1
Superman -
1.
Death of a Legend [Funeral for a Friend, Part 1]
Superman -
2.
[no title indexed]
Kryptograms
This issue was modified by
- Jim Van Dore
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